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Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
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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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There are major differences in the metabolism of morphine and the illegal drug heroin. Morphine mostly produces its CNS effects through m-receptors, and at k- and d-receptors. Heroin has a slight affinity for opiate receptors. Most of its actions are due to metabolism to active metabolites (6-acetylmorphine, morphine, and morphine-6-glucuronide).
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Vital signs (blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate) should be taken before any drug administration. Patients should be informed not to use tobacco or caffeine at least 30 minutes before their appointment.
Baby Giraffe
stages of the family cycle
General Andrew Jackson, on the horse, exhorts his men to throw back the advancing British; they succ
Baby Station
Rocking out, baby style: The author’s daughter dances at her first birthday party.
Adjustments of the Infant at Birth