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...patient by mixing a magnesium salt with them, according to the researches of Dr. Moses Leverock Crossley of Bound Brook, N. J. The magnesium salt acts upon the body allowing the drug to penetrate more freely, quickening the action, reducing the dosage in many cases. Magnesium made aspirin twice as effective; made morphine injections last four times their ordinary duration; made codein, which ordinarily has no effect on temperature, reduce fevers. Any salt of magnesium may be used...
...43rd St. 10.00 2 bottles Grade A. .40 1 Riding habit, borowed from milkman 12.00 1 Horse, gallop in Vanderbilt Ave. 5.00 Fine and Costs 13.00 Bench in Grand Central Experience Train to Northfield, Vt., by mistake 14.40 Refreshments at Northfield, Vt. (also by mistake) 5.00 Aspirin .15 Return train to Bratteboro. Vt., 3.47 Handear to Northfield, Mass. 19.62 Reputation lost in Northfield. Mass. 02 Heart balm again 25.00 Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care 3.00 The rest is silence...
Three days from Manhattan influenza developed among the enlisted men. At the ship's pharmacy the bottle of famed C. C.* pills was set aside and the bottle of aspirin tablets put ready. Sick men went to bed until the hospital was full; then they were placed in cabins. At Panama 167 were sick of influenza. Eleven men developed mumps, infectious disease that added to fear aboard. To restrain the epidemic officers forbade enlisted men to mount above the main deck, first-class passengers to descend from the promenade. Continuous entertainment kept morale...
...course, to this sweeping cynicism, and not as some might think, because the sun is climbing northward with a persistency remarkable for one so old. So the thinking being when he climbs into bed to race the blissful nirvana of eclipsed regrets occasionally wastes a few minutes and an aspirin tablet in tracing this phenomenon to its source...
...even the college woman, class two, does rather admit the existence of the less deadly of the species. She admitted it on Mt. Auburn Street when she smiled through piled manuscript at a jovial editor with a headache and offered to let him take her to supper. He took aspirin...