In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It if often referred to as a superbug. MRSA infections cause more deaths in the United States every year than AIDS.
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Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Catbirds and robins reject objects shaped similarly to cowbird eggs no more frequently than objects
Major features of the Solar System (not to scale)
The Major Divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System