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People line up at UHS every morning of exams all plagued with various ailments. Lots of people have theories on how to make yourself sick enough to get out of a final: eat a lot of aspirin and drink a Coke; eat spoiled mayonnaise; polish off a quart of Charles River water; swallow chunks of chewing tobacco; say you're hearing voices (how can they tell?). One guy had his roomate smash his finger with a hammer. "It seemed like a good idea at the time," he says...
...next month, "some of our old grandmothers' recipes are proving to be not so old-hat after all." For example, horehound, an age-old relief for coughs and sore throats, still sells briskly. Sage and mint teas, to name only two, are widely used to treat colds; and aspirin is made from salicylic acid, the essential chemical in willow bark, known as a palliative since the dawn of time. Safflower has long been grown for what is now known as "polyunsaturated" oil. Foxglove yields digitalis. Ephedrine, the base of many nasal sprays, is extracted from a desert shrub. Indians...
...laughing," she explains, "you could not convince me that they were not laughing at me. The lady in the corner holding the compact was looking at me over her shoulder." A year ago, her throat raw from marijuana, she decided to stop using all drugs. Now she avoids even aspirin...
...other studies, involving some 2,000 British and American heart attack victims, revealed that aspirin users have a lower recurrence of coronaries than nonusers. These findings fit in with earlier observations showing that aspirin inhibits the aggregation of platelets-blood components involved in clotting; for this reason, doctors have recommended against its use by women about to deliver babies or others facing major surgery. Large doses of aspirin can cause serious bleeding in the stomach-especially in ulcer victims-and can also damage the kidneys...
...studies seem to show that aspirin's anticlotting properties may prove helpful against heart attacks and strokes. Physicians are not yet ready to recommend a daily dose of aspirin as a cure-all for coronary patients, but the federally sponsored National Coronary Drug Project has started a large-scale study of this possible new use for an old drug...