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Did you know?
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Your heart beats over 36 million times a year.
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It is believed that the Incas used anesthesia. Evidence supports the theory that shamans chewed cocoa leaves and drilled holes into the heads of patients (letting evil spirits escape), spitting into the wounds they made. The mixture of cocaine, saliva, and resin numbed the site enough to allow hours of drilling.
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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.