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On this page you will find facts about diseases you probably didn't want to know. I bet you didn't know they had a name for someone who compulsively steals women's panties.
Updated 2/24/05

-The number one cause of blindness in the United States is diabetes.

-Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.

-During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

-Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

-In the 1800s, it was believed that gin could cure stomach problems.

-Some artrhritis medicine have gold salts which is used as an anti-inflamitory.

-Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.

-Wayne McLaren, the first owner of the Marlboro Company, died of lung cancer.

-The flu pandemic of 1918 killed more than 20 million people.

-The oddest known disease in the world is leprosy.

Old Ones

-A suriphobe is someone who is afraid of mice.

-The first open heart surgery was performed in 1893.

-An erythrophobe is someone who blushes easily.

-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 is the world's oldest profession.

-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.

-A dinomaniac is someone with the compulsive urge to dance.

-In 1898, Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin.