The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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Asthma cases in Americans are about 75% higher today than they were in 1980.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
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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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The life cycle of a zygomycete, the black bread mould Rhizopus stolonifer.
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Basic steps in hemostasis.
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