Thursday, June 19, 2008

Facts of Human Body

  • North American Indians ate Watercress to dissolve gravel and stones in the bladder.
  • In Russia, suppositories cut from fresh potatoes were used for quick relief of haemorrhoids.
  • A salt enema used to be given to children to rid them of threadworms.
  • Powdered Tea was once used as a snuff to stop bleeding noses.
  • A decoction of dandelion roots and leaves is an old remedy for dissolving urinary stones and gravel.
  • Comfrey (herb) baths were popular before the wedding night to attempt to repair the hymen and thereby apparently restore virginity.
  • The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the Adam's Apple.
  • Stroking the sole of the foot is used by doctor's to produce the Babinski effect.
  • Insulin is produced in the pancreas.
  • Acute hasopharyngitis is more commonly known as a cold.
  • Keratitis is an inflammation of the cornea which may lead to blindness.
  • Oophorectomy is the surgical removal of the ovaries.
  • Sexually transmitted diseases are the major cause of preventable sterility in American men and women.
  • Sperm is the smallest single cell in a mans body.
  • Estragon protects against heart disease.
  • Hair, prompted by testosterone, grows faster in men in anticipation of sex.
  • An average, in America, three sex change operations are performed every day.
  • Artificial forms of birth control are condemned by the catholic church. The 'Rythem' [Rhythm] method is recommended by the church, as is abstinence
  • In 1977, Napoleon's penis was sold in Paris for about US $3 800 to an American urologist.
  • The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
  • In 1855, dentist Robert Arthur was the first to use gold to fill cavities.
  • The fleshy muscular organ joined to the hyoid bone is the tongue.
  • Quinine is an alkaloid extract of the bark of the Cinchona tree.
  • By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
  • An Eskimo would be ingesting toxic doses of Vitamin A if he ate a polar bears liver.
  • Smallpox is also known as variola.
  • The disease Tuberculosis, is best known as consumption.
  • Victorian women tried to enlarge their breasts by bathing in strawberries.
  • The fissure of Rolando, would be found in the human brain.
  • Iron deficiency causes the most common form of anaemia.
  • Red blood cells are produced in the bone marrow.
  • The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone.
  • The Mount of Jupiter and the Girdle of Venus are found on the palm of your hand.
  • The Auricularis muscles are used to move the ears.
  • The vaccine for smallpox was developed in 1798.
  • In the United States, 1982, the painkiller 'Tylenol' was spiked with cyanide.
  • The normal body temperature in 37° Celsius.
  • In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill . . . it took 8 holes.
  • The leading cause of death in the late 19th century was tuberculosis.
  • The rate of Quadruplets are 1 (set) in every 490 000 births.
  • A person suffering from polythelia has 3 nipples.
  • Clinophobia is a fear of beds.
  • A human sheds a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks.
  • The human brain is 80% water.
  • The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.
  • The nose continues to grow throughout your life.
  • Everyone's tongue print is different.
  • 15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.
  • Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
  • The most prescribed drug in the United Kingdom in 1985 was Valium.
  • The left side of the brain is usually responsible for the control of speech.
  • The space between two adjacent neurones is called the 'synapse'.
  • The crystalline quartz, Amethyst was once believed to prevent drunkenness.
  • Sigmund Freud bought his first sample of cocaine for $1.27 per gram.
  • The septum linguae is found on the tongue.
  • Stroking the sole of the foot produces the Babinski reflex.
  • During a orchidectomy, a man has a testicle removed.
  • The medical term for a black eye is circumorbital haematoma.
  • Medical experts say you should sleep on your right side to improve digestion.
  • There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being that there are human beings on the surface of the earth.
  • The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
  • There are over 100 million light sensitive cells in the retina.
  • The opposite of 'cross-eyed' is 'wall-eyed'.
  • From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
  • Laudanum, a tincture of opium, was a common sedative in Victorian times.
  • Dr. W.S. Halstead was the first to use rubber gloves during surgery in 1890.
  • The human body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight.
  • In the early Twentieth century, rattlesnake venom was used to treat epilepsy.
  • The human body contains about sixthy thousand miles of blood vessels.
  • Narcolepsy is the uncontrollable need to sleep.
  • The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.
  • The human body transmits nerve impulses at about 90 metres a second
  • Spread out, the walls of the human intestines would cover an area of about one hundred square feet.
  • The hydrochloric acid in the human stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail.
  • There are 14 phalanges (finger bones) in a human hand.
  • In 1979 Dr. Christian Barnard was offered $250 000 by the American National Enquirer to perform a human head transplant.
  • Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty.
  • The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9 000 'lead' pencils.
  • Cancer claims forty victims an hour in America.
  • In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century, children were entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet.
  • Podobromhidrosis is more commonly known as 'smelly feet'.
  • If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
  • Opium was used widely as a painkiller during the American Civil War. As a result, over one hundred thousand soldiers had become drug addicts by the end of the war.
  • Men have on average 10% more red blood cells than women
  • New Zealand's first hospital was opened in 1843.
  • One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.
  • The symptoms of haemophilia are never displayed by women, but can only pass it on. With men is the opposite.
  • If your mouth was completely dry, you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.
  • When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.
  • The largest muscle in the human body is the buttock muscle.
  • The Islands of Langerhans won't be found on a map, they're a group of cells located in the pancreas.
  • Every time you step forward, you use fifty four muscles.
  • A Rhinologist specialises in the human nose.
  • If you could remove all the space from the atoms that make up your body, you could walk through the eye of a needle.
  • A chromosome is larger than a gene.
  • The average human brain weighs 1.3 kg
  • During the fifteenth century, sick people were often dressed in red and surrounded by red objects because it was though to help them get better.
  • Eighty per cent of all body heat escapes through the head.
  • The Black Death claimed roughly forty million lives in the thirteenth century.
  • The human wrist contains more bones than the ankle.
  • Someone who grinds their teeth is a bruxomaniac.
  • In 1562 a man was dug up six hours after his burial, after he had been seen breathing by someone at the funeral - he lived for another 75 years.
  • Doctors 'bled' Louis XIII of France forty-seven times in one month in an attempt to cure his illness.
  • Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
  • Physcrophilia is the sexual arousal by cold.
  • If 80% of the human liver was removed, it could still function and would eventually restore itself to its original size.
  • There is more pigment in brown eyes than blue.
  • Nearly a quarter of all human bones can be found in the feet.
  • The ' funny bone' is not a bone but a nerve.
  • Most people blink about 25 000 times a day.
  • The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.
  • The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.
  • There is no single word given to describe the back of the knee.
  • From fertilisation to birth, a baby's weigh increase 5 000 million times.
  • The woman of the Brazilin Apinaly Tribe bite their mates eyebrows during intercourse.
  • Thomas Wedders, the English circus freak, had a nose which was seven and a half inches long.
  • The ancient Greeks believed that boys developed in the right hand side of the womb and girls in the left.
  • The average height of a man in the Middle Ages was five feet six inches.
  • The human body has fewer muscles in it than a caterpillar.
  • Medieval recipe for the cure of acne 'the rout of dragon's made clean and cut into thin roundels and steeped for nine days in white wine and applied '.
  • Men are ten times more likely to be colour-blind than women.
  • An eighteenth century woman used only lard to 'wash' her face and hands and lived to the age of 116.
  • The liver is the largest internal organ weighing about 10.5 kilograms.
  • Human adults breathe about 23 000 time a day.
  • It requires 30 muscles to raise your eyebrows.
  • Nutmeg, if injected intravenously, is fatal.
  • The most common form of cancer is Skin cancer.
  • The Middle ear and the Pharynx are joined with the Eustachian tube.
  • The Extensor digiti minimi manus is used to extend the little finger.
  • If you are a universal donor your blood group is type O.
  • When recognising someone's face, you use the right side of your brain.

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