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Asthma-like symptoms were first recorded about 3,500 years ago in Egypt. The first manuscript specifically written about asthma was in the year 1190, describing a condition characterized by sudden breathlessness. The treatments listed in this manuscript include chicken soup, herbs, and sexual abstinence.
Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
After a vasectomy, it takes about 12 ejaculations to clear out sperm that were already beyond the blocked area.