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Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
Adult head lice are gray, about ? inch long, and often have a tiny dot on their backs. A female can lay between 50 and 150 eggs within the several weeks that she is alive. They feed on human blood.
The immune system needs 9.5 hours of sleep in total darkness to recharge completely.
Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
The first oncogene was discovered in 1970 and was termed SRC (pronounced "SARK").