Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
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Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.
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About 600,000 particles of skin are shed every hour by each human. If you live to age 70 years, you have shed 105 pounds of dead skin.
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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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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
Filter in the vena cava prevents an embolus from traveling to the heart, lungs, or brain; A, Greenfi
Pathophysiology of heart failure
Heart and intercalated discs.
SSRIs block the reuptake of serotonin into nerve terminals, resulting in increased serotonin levels.