Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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On average, the stomach produces 2 L of hydrochloric acid per day.
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The most common childhood diseases include croup, chickenpox, ear infections, flu, pneumonia, ringworm, respiratory syncytial virus, scabies, head lice, and asthma.
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Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.
Birth Clouds
This photo shows a newborn baby minutes after birth.
Shen Zhou, Poet on a Mountaintop, leaf from an album of landscapes, painting mounted as part of a ...