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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.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
Elderly adults are living longer, and causes of death are shifting. At the same time, autopsy rates are at or near their lowest in history.