Disease is a condition in which the body fails to function normally.

In the ancient and medieval periods, dysentery killed about ? of all babies before they reach 12 months of age. The disease was transferred through contaminated drinking water, because there was no way to adequately dispose of sewage, which contaminated the water.

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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).

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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).

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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.

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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.

Traditional animal phylogeny based on body plans.

Placenta previa. The condition is caused by the development of the placenta over the cervical canal,

Polyps and polyposis. A polyp is a protruding growth from a mucous membrane lining a hollow organ. I

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