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...clinical tests have consistently shown that addition to aspirin of the particular antacid mixture (i.e., Di-Alminate) used in Bufferin invariably doubles the rate of absorption of aspirin into the blood stream during at least the first thirty minutes after administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prayer & Pills | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Saratoga springs spurt supercharged soda water. The kind named Geyser contains bicarbonates of sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron It is antacid, aids digestion, relieves gastric distress. Other Saratoga waters contain chlorides of sodium (table salt), potassium, lithium, ammonium. The kind called Coesa is a mild laxative; the kind called Hathorn, a vigorous cathartic. Dr. Baruch after drinking "not wisely but too well, learned a lesson which I have often taught others -that these waters must be prescribed with care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Saratoga Spa | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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