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Word: cascara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aspirin & Sophistication. In the U.S., such old favorites as Hill's Cascara Quinine (Whitehall Pharmacal Co.) and Bromo Quinine (Grove Laboratories, Inc.) retain a faithful but shrinking following. They have been crowded to the side of druggists' counters by supposedly more sophisticated products of the antibiotic, antihistamine age. A current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What's Good for a Cold? | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

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