WATInteresting medical facts...

One out of every four orthopedic surgeons has cut or will operate on the wrong limb at some point in
his or her career.

Medical researchers contend that no disease ever identified has been completely eradicated.

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

No one seems to know why people blush.

In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.
The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.

The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.

People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda
School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers
levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-
year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day.
Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

People who have a tough time handling the stress of money woes
are twice as likely to develop severe gum disease, a new study
finds.

Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are

exposed to light.

Of the 206 bones in the average human adult's body, 106 are in
the hands and feet. (54 in the hands and 52 in the feet)

In 1815 French chemist Michael Eugene Chevreul realized the

first link between diabetes and sugar metabolism when he
discovered that the urine of a diabetic was identical to grape sugar.

Sumerians (from 5000 BC) thought that the liver made blood and the heart was the center of thought.

Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.

The first Band-Aid Brand Adhesive Bandages were three inches wide and eighteen inches long. You
made your own bandage by cutting off as much as you needed.

The human brain stops growing at the age of 18.

In 1977, a 13 year old child found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

The average Human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was a symbolic character for the hat makers in towns of the
late 1800's. The large felt hats of the day had supports made out of lead. The lead caused an organic form
of psychosis (brain damage) to develop in the hat makers causing them to be declared crazy.
The substance that human blood resembles most closely in terms of chemical composition is sea water.

 If you squeezed out all of the bacteria from your intestines, you could almost fill up a coffee mug

Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with
marijuana
Urine was once used as a detergent for washing.
You blink every 2-10 seconds. As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and
forth 100 times a second, and every second; the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations.

"The Purpose of Life is a Life of Purpose"