Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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The oldest recorded age was 122. Madame Jeanne Calment was born in France in 1875 and died in 1997. She was a vegetarian and loved olive oil, port wine, and chocolate.
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Asthma-like symptoms were first recorded about 3,500 years ago in Egypt. The first manuscript specifically written about asthma was in the year 1190, describing a condition characterized by sudden breathlessness. The treatments listed in this manuscript include chicken soup, herbs, and sexual abstinence.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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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.
Male Skeleton
Palatine bones
Bones of the foot
Apidium may be ancestral to all later higher primates and is reconstructed as looking like a small-b
