The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").
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You should not take more than 1,000 mg of vitamin E per day. Doses above this amount increase the risk of bleeding problems that can lead to a stroke.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
These monolithic figures from Easter Island suggest the contemplative nature of philosophy, which ca
Hokusai, Sunshu Ejiri, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.