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Though everyone has his horror story about medical negligence or slipups, there seems to be a tone of special aggrievement in the current crop. There was the woman in Illinois who complained that she did not feel well, was advised by telephone to take aspirin, and was dead within the hour. There was the Washington child with the crushed hand that no doctor would agree to see until a neighbor promised to pay for treatment. There was the rash that expensively baffled two experts-until the lady in question discovered bedbugs. Though such examples are exceptions, the profession itself admits...
...Contrary to popular opinion, Prudence and the Pill was not written by Graham Blaine. It is a "bedroom farce" about what happens when a suspicious husband replaces his wife's Enovid with aspirin. Pregnancy is the obvious result, but when? And who? Written by Hugh Mills, published by Lippincott, and not worth the effort...
...time some anteloper is Ghana snake in and monkey around with the gnus, lemur know ahead. I roared so, the cubs in our pride were all apeset. Father said: "How horribull, she's been pythoned! Alligator a drink-you kids call the dogtor and giraffter that go bison aspirin. We'll keep her lion down hunter the table and cassowary ibis on the rest of TIME." That'll rabbit...
...N.C.R. more than $25 million a year. But N.C.R. scientists saw no reason to settle for that one payoff from encapsulation. They, and researchers for other companies, have been busy working out countless other applications. Among the most familiar: "timed release" decongestants such as Contac, and a newly introduced aspirin called Measurin...
...single dose. The period required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...