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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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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 over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.