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Opium has influenced much of the world's most popular literature. The following authors were all opium users, of varying degrees: Lewis Carroll, Charles, Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Oscar Wilde.
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Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.