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Once thought to have neurofibromatosis, Joseph Merrick (also known as "the elephant man") is now, in retrospect, thought by clinical experts to have had Proteus syndrome. This endocrine disease causes continued and abnormal growth of the bones, muscles, skin, and so on and can become completely debilitating with severe deformities occurring anywhere on the body.
About 600,000 particles of skin are shed every hour by each human. If you live to age 70 years, you have shed 105 pounds of dead skin.
By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.