The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
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The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
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The highest suicide rate in the United States is among people ages 65 years and older. Almost 15% of people in this age group commit suicide every year.
A child with a hearing impairment wears a hearing aid (as noted in his left ear).
On March 25, 1911, as scores of young factory girls leaped to their deaths from the eighth, ninth, a
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