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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
About 100 new prescription or over-the-counter drugs come into the U.S. market every year.
Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
Immunoglobulin injections may give short-term protection against, or reduce severity of certain diseases. They help people who have an inherited problem making their own antibodies, or those who are having certain types of cancer treatments.
When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).