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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.