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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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Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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Approximately one in four people diagnosed with diabetes will develop foot problems. Of these, about one-third will require lower extremity amputation.