According to Acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear.

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More Abortions than tonsillectomies are being performed in america.

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In Nepal, Cow Dung is used for medicinal purposes The Nepalese, believing that Dung has antiseptic properties, often pack a woman's vagina with it after she has given birth. This practice is thought to be responsible for the high incidence of tetanus among new mothers in Nepal.

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Forty percent of the American population has never visited a Dentist.

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Dentists in medieval Japan extracted teeth by pulling them out with their fingers.

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In ancient China, doctors were forbidden in the name of propriety to see their female patients naked. To circumvent this prohibition, doctors on house calls brought with them a small ivory carving of a woman's naked body. This carving was passed into the curtained bedchamber of the ailing woman along with instructions on how to mark the troubled organs. The statue was then handed out through the curtains and the doctor made his Diagnosis on the basis of the markings.

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The R sign used today on pharmaceutical prescriptions was originally an astrological sign for the planet Jupiter The use of this sign originated in the Middle Ages, when doctors believed that the planets influenced Health. Jupiter was thought to be the most powerful of all the heavenly bodies in curing disease.

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According to the Center for Health Administration, one out of every ten Americans spends one day a year in the Hospital.

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The theory of Immunization, and of smallpox Immunization in particular, was known to Chinese doctors more than seven hundred years before its discovery in 1796 by the English physician Edward Jenner. To Immunize a child against smallpox, known euphemistically as "the budding of blossoms," a doctor took a pustule from a smallpox patient, pulverized it, and blew the powder into the child's nose through a specially molded tube. It was believed that since only the scabs were used, the mild case of smallpox caused by this "injection" would bestow natural Immunity on the child without causing him to become too sick, Another method of Immunization was to wrap a child in a robe smeared with pus taken from someone with a mild case of smallpox so that the child's skin would be permeated by the secretions. This technique was also practiced by doctors in medieval India.

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The Insulin used to treat diabetes in human beings is taken from pigs and sheep. The substance produced in these animals is exactly the same as that found in the human body and has precisely the same sugar stabilizing effect.

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Taliacotius, a sixteenth-century Italian Surgeon, devised an operation for rebuilding damaged tissue in the human Nose. The patient's arm was raised to the face and held there, the inner part of the arm against the open flesh of the Nose, by means of a special apparatus or system of bandages. The arm was kept adhered to the Nose for several weeks, at the end of which time the two were supposed to have grown together. The Surgeon then cut the joint between arm and nose, leaving enough flesh for a new nose, and the apparatus was removed.

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A typical surgical Skin graft is done with a slice of Skin eight thousandths of an inch thick.

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Runners in ancient Greece believed that the Spleen was a hindrance to endurance and long-distance running. Consequently they had a vast pharmacopoeia, of herbal concoctions especially designed to shrink this vital organ. One popular Spleen-shrinker was a beverage made from a plant of the genus Equisetum. The drink was mixed with a variety of herbs and taken for three days before a race. According to contemporary witnesses, it proved enormously helpful in promoting endurance (whether it shrank the Spleen we do not know). Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician, mentioned a certain mushroom that, when burned over the area of the Spleen, melted the organ completely.

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