In ancient Rome, many of the richer people in the population had lead-induced gout. The reason for this is unclear. Lead poisoning has also been linked to madness.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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Many of the drugs used by neuroscientists are derived from toxic plants and venomous animals (such as snakes, spiders, snails, and puffer fish).
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
Adults in the Berlin Study of Aging show earlier declines on tests of nonverbal, fluid tasks (upper ...