The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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Atropine, along with scopolamine and hyoscyamine, is found in the Datura stramonium plant, which gives hallucinogenic effects and is also known as locoweed.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in every adult human.
A shed carapace of a lady crab, part of the hard exoskeleton