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Cocaine was isolated in 1860 and first used as a local anesthetic in 1884. Its first clinical use was by Sigmund Freud to wean a patient from morphine addiction. The fictional character Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be addicted to cocaine by injection.
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The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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The people with the highest levels of LDL are Mexican American males and non-Hispanic black females.