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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in the early use of intravenous therapy, attempts were made to inject milk, sugar, honey, and egg yolk into a person's veins?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:28, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Modern intravenous therapy bags hanging from an IV pole

... that the first recorded attempt at providing intravenous therapy was an attempt to treat Pope Innocent VIII with IV injection of blood from healthy donors? Source: Millam D (January 1996). "The history of intravenous therapy". Journal of intravenous nursing : the official publication of the Intravenous Nurses Society. 19 (1): 5–14. PMID 8708844.

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Comment: Not too attached to the hook or image, so willing to work on either.

Improved to Good Article status by Berchanhimez (talk). Self-nominated at 14:44, 20 October 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 14:09, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Other Uses" Expand the section[edit]

The other uses of IV therapy has not been listed, such as for beauty treatments, eg. skin lightening.^[1]. Also, the article is missing information about NAD+ therapy, which is getting popular.^[2] Internetyev (talk) 20:31, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/health/skin-lightening-glutathione-bleaching.html

[2] ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/do-nad-boosting-supplements-fight-aging-not-according-to-current-research/2019/11/26/ffc95704-07c4-11ea-818c-fcc65139e8c2_story.html

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