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Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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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.