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More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Drying your hands with a paper towel will reduce the bacterial count on your hands by 45–60%.
For about 100 years, scientists thought that peptic ulcers were caused by stress, spicy food, and alcohol. Later, researchers added stomach acid to the list of causes and began treating ulcers with antacids. Now it is known that peptic ulcers are predominantly caused by Helicobacter pylori, a spiral-shaped bacterium that normally exist in the stomach.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.