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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
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In ancient Rome, many of the richer people in the population had lead-induced gout. The reason for this is unclear. Lead poisoning has also been linked to madness.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.