The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Every 10 seconds, a person in the United States goes to the emergency room complaining of head pain. About 1.2 million visits are for acute migraine attacks.
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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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Cardiac catheterization. Insertion of a tube called a catheter through a blood vessel. In this examp
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Arteries and veins around the heart.
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The National Organization for Women holds a rally in Illinois for the Equal Rights Amendment. In ...