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In Eastern Europe and Russia, interferon is administered intranasally in varied doses for the common cold and influenza. It is claimed that this treatment can lower the risk of infection by as much as 60–70%.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
In 1864, the first barbiturate (barbituric acid) was synthesized.
The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.