|
Author Question: Your text recounts the story of Rabbi Kalisch's answer to the Japanese High Command's question, Why ... (Read 60 times) |
There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
GI conditions that will keep you out of the U.S. armed services include ulcers, varices, fistulas, esophagitis, gastritis, congenital abnormalities, inflammatory bowel disease, enteritis, colitis, proctitis, duodenal diverticula, malabsorption syndromes, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cysts, abscesses, pancreatitis, polyps, certain hemorrhoids, splenomegaly, hernias, recent abdominal surgery, GI bypass or stomach stapling, and artificial GI openings.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.