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...Helen Goodell tried a mixture of two ounces of 95% grain alcohol in a glass of ginger ale on themselves, found that it raises the "threshold" of pain 45% for two hours. Two ounces of 90-proof whiskey will turn the same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming but an alcohol habit is less difficult...
...pulsating, onesided headaches are caused by a hereditary peculiarity of blood vessels in the brain and neck. An emotional upset or an irritating food may cause them to open wide; then blood goes pounding through with extra force. Remedies: 1) a calm life; 2) abstention from annoying foods; 3) aspirin tablets, benzedrine, black coffee or ducking in cold water for mild cases. If a patient can scent it in advance, a dose of the drug gynergen will nip a migraine headache in the bud; once the throbbing begins, this medicine is useless. Gynergen often produces jitters, vomiting, circulatory disturbances...
...training camps along the West Coast, thousands of soldiers were down with flu. At Fort Lewis, Wash., about 1,400 men were confined to tents and canvas field hospitals. Popular treatment: an aspirin and a glass of gin. ^ In Hollywood almost half of the movie stars were sick in bed. Some who went to work wore surgeons' masks for protection...
...Doctors have never taken much stock in antiseptic gargles except as soothers. In fact, many consider plain hot water just as good as a fancy mixture. Last fortnight the Lancet reported a "totally unexpected" indictment of aspirin gargles. Quoting laboratory studies, they reported that "appreciable quantities of the calcium of the teeth go into solution when an aspirin gargle is used. . . . Over a number of years [the gargle] might well result in permanent damage to the teeth." However, the Lancet added, the teeth are unharmed if equal quantities of bicarbonate of soda are dissolved with aspirin...
...cows" are not steers but cow boys. Malapropism is not Curtiz' only peculiarity. He addresses everyone at Warner's up to Bette Davis as "you bum," gives the best borscht bawlings-out in the business. He takes no lunch, tried to coax actors to have an aspirin instead, uses "after-lunch actor" as his supreme epithet of contempt. When anything goes wrong on the set, Curtiz is immediately convinced that he is being jinxed by the presence of his personal secretary, whom he calls "Dracula," stops everything to find him. Once John Barrymore, visiting a Santa Monica dance...