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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).
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
The term pharmacology is derived from the Greek words pharmakon("claim, medicine, poison, or remedy") and logos ("study").