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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.
In the ancient and medieval periods, dysentery killed about ? of all babies before they reach 12 months of age. The disease was transferred through contaminated drinking water, because there was no way to adequately dispose of sewage, which contaminated the water.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.