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According to Archives of General Medicine, coffee drinkers
have
sex more frequently and enjoy it more than non-coffee drinkers.
Dr. Miles Compound Extract of Tomato, a patent medicine, went on
the market in the 1830s - it was ketchup.
Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by
having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a
hospital.
In the USA, the average price of a day in the hospital is $360,
in Japan one day is $60.
There are 18 doctors in the US called Dr. Doctor, and one called
Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a
psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr
Gass.
In 1990, a 64-year old Hartsville, Tennessee, woman entered a
hospital for surgery for what doctors diagnosed as a tumor on her
buttocks. What surgeons found, however, was a four-inch pork
chop bone, which they removed. They estimated that it had been
in place for five to ten years. The woman could not remember
sitting on it, or eating it for that matter.
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