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On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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.
Human stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve small pieces of metal such as razor blades or staples.
Since 1988, the CDC has reported a 99% reduction in bacterial meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae, due to the introduction of the vaccine against it.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.