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.