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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
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Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
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Russia has the highest death rate from cardiovascular disease followed by the Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and Poland.
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GI conditions that will keep you out of the U.S. armed services include ulcers, varices, fistulas, esophagitis, gastritis, congenital abnormalities, inflammatory bowel disease, enteritis, colitis, proctitis, duodenal diverticula, malabsorption syndromes, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cysts, abscesses, pancreatitis, polyps, certain hemorrhoids, splenomegaly, hernias, recent abdominal surgery, GI bypass or stomach stapling, and artificial GI openings.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
Male lying supine with large ecchymosis on lateral rib cage and shoulder.
Skeletal muscles of the shoulder, arm, and hand.
Stretch the cervical muscles with neck in lateral flexion. Place one hand on the shoulder and the ...
Major back and shoulder muscles.
Gently squeeze along the length of the arm with both hands, moving down the arm from shoulder to ...
Lymphatic Drainage on Dorsum with Ankle Rotation. With the fingers of both hands, gently stretch the ...