Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.
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It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
This bleeding heart plant (the genus Dicentra) is an example of an angiosperm.
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Mechanisms of Action of Drugs Used for Heart Failure
Anatomy of the heart. Remember: It is labeled right and left based on the patient’s perspective.