Word: coricidin
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...million Ibs. of aspirin a year - enough to fill four 100-car freight trains, enough for the 16 billion straight, five-grain aspirin tablets that Americans swallow each year, plus an even greater amount for the children's miniature aspirin and such formulations as Bufferin, APC tablets, Coricidin and Alka-Seltzer...
Pollen blew from sycamore trees in Southern California, from orchard grass in Tennessee, from the oaks of New England. Pollen was blowing everywhere in the U.S. last week, and all over the country hay fever victims knew it. Sales of such over-the-counter antihistamines as Coricidin and Allerest climbed with the pollen indices. Noses itching and eyes stinging, patients ran to their doctors for the more potent prescription drugs. Almost three months before the debut of the most debilitating pollen of them all-ragweed-the hay fever season had arrived with a loud sneeze...
...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 (vitamin C) has become popular...
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