Oooo also you got any medical history-related or maybe human body-related funfacts, doc? (i mean maybe not exactly "fun", but you get what i mean)
i would be happy to sit her and talk medical and physiology trivia all day! but im not sure how much of it you would actually find fun or interesting.
that being said, a few of my favorite 'fun facts' are that the hardest substance in the body is tooth enamel (as hard as steel, but brittle), the idea that different areas of your tongue are more sensitive to different flavors is actually incorrect, your body holds about 5.6 liters of blood (thats about 1.5 gallons), 95% of your blood is produced in your bone marrow (and yes, bones are organs made of living tissue! im often surprised how many people are not aware of this), and the longest type of cells in the human body are neurons, the longest of which is about 1 meter!
as for medical history, i would be remise if i did not mention my favorite amputation story of all time! if youre familiar with robert liston youll know what i am about to say. he was a skilled surgeon that lived from the years 1794 to 1847, and before anesthetics became common practice he was well known for his ability to perform surgeries at an extremely fast rate to avoid shock and blood loss. one of his most famous operations was an amputation performed in under three minutes, resulting in a witness dying from shock, his assistant dying from infection after getting his fingers cut off in the process, and the patient themselves later dying from infection as well! this operation is said to be the only one with a 300% mortality rate. the actual validity of this story is dubious at best, but its one of my favorites regardless!
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