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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.