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The first war in which wide-scale use of anesthetics occurred was the Civil War, and 80% of all wounds were in the extremities.
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In 1886, William Bates reported on the discovery of a substance produced by the adrenal gland that turned out to be epinephrine (adrenaline). In 1904, this drug was first artificially synthesized by Friedrich Stolz.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.