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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
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A cataract is a clouding of the eyes' natural lens. As we age, some clouding of the lens may occur. The first sign of a cataract is usually blurry vision. Although glasses and other visual aids may at first help a person with cataracts, surgery may become inevitable. Cataract surgery is very successful in restoring vision, and it is the most frequently performed surgery in the United States.
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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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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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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.
On average, the ratio of carbon to nitrogen is much higher in terrestrial plants than in other major
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True-color view of Mars seen through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1999
False-color imagery of the Sun, a G-type main-sequence star, the closest to Earth.
A typical distillation curve. Heavier molecules evaporate at higher temperatures and contain more ...
The limbic system is located within the higher brain, or cerebrum.