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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.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.