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Caffeine, whether in coffee, tea or APC tablets (aspirin, phenacetin, caffeine), taken for a cold, definitely has a stimulating and sleep-postponing effect on a majority of people. But there is a substantial minority on whom, laboratory tests show, it has no effect at all. There are even a few people whom it puts to sleep...
...been observed sleeping soundly for seven hours.) The most that these hard-headed doctors will concede is that anxiety about not getting to sleep is itself upsetting, and they will prescribe just a few hypnotics to break a vicious cycle. But most doctors prescribe sleeping pills as freely as aspirin...
...sharp question and answer session. Quijano gave his analysis of Cuba's difficulties. "Fidel may have diagnosed the disease correctly," he said, "but whereas the disease may have only needed an aspirin, he performed a major surgery...
...mosquito, the victim develops a fever, chills, excruciating headache, pain behind the eyeballs, backache, and pain in muscles and joints. Most victims are sure they are going to die-and many want to. The pain and weakness last for weeks. There is no specific medication; the only treatment is aspirin, lots of fluids and bed rest...
...most Americans, the word Bayer means headach pills. Aspirin was indeed invented by Germany's Bayer Farbenfabriken, but one of the company's major migraines is that its aspirin is made in the U.S. solely by Manhattan's Sterling Drug Co. Bayer (pronounced buyer) lost its U.S. trademarks during World War I and has been unable to get them back...