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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
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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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People about to have surgery must tell their health care providers about all supplements they take.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.