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The largest baby ever born weighed more than 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.
By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.