-The oldest form or surgery is trepanning, drilling holes in the skull.
-The earliest form of electric shock treatment involved electric eels.
-If it is a drug, it has a side effect.
-A melcryptovestimentaphiliac is someone who compulsively steals ladies underwear.
-An anemophobic is someone afraid of high winds.
-An ergasiophobe is someone who is afraid of work.
-Venereal Disease got its name from Venus, the Roman godess of love.
-Americans consume 16,000 tons of Asprin each year.
-The most common phobia in the world is odynophobia which is the fear of pain.
-Cerumen is the medical term for earwax.
-A Witch Doctor or Midwife is the world’s oldest profession, not the one you thought.
-Breast reduction is the most common plastic surgery performed on American men.
-There is no leading cause of death for people who live past the age of 100.
-An arithmomaniac is someone who counts things compulsively.
-An algologist studys seaweed.
-Genitofemoral neuropahthy means “Jeans are too tight.”
-A misodoctakleidist is someone who hates practicing the piano.
-Asprin has never been approved nor rejected by the FDA.
-A misomaniac is someone who hates everything.
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