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...dissolved in a small quantity of warm water; b) swab throat with a mixture of one part iodine and five parts glycerine; c) spray nostrils.with 1% solution of ephedrin sulphate, or with a diluted solution of atropine sulphate if cold is very severe; d) castor oil or citrate of magnesia purge; e) saturated solution of baking powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sterilization in Michigan | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...this marriage was A. H. Diebold's Sterling Products, which came from a different sort of family. Sterling did no retailing hut manufactured a large assortment of patent medicines which it had bought up in the course of years. It made Cascarets, Danderine, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria, Bayer's Aspirin (bought from the Alien Property Custodian in 1919), Mum, California Syrup of Figs, etc. It was evident in the beginning that the marriage between these two parties could never be complete. For Sterling would have lost much of its market if its nationally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Drug, Disincorporated | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...possible as anticipated. In the matter of mouthwash how was United Drug to press its M131, Life Savers its Oradol, Vicks its Voratone, and Bristol-Myers its Analka-without competition? In the matter of toothpaste how was Bristol-Myers to press its Ipana, Sterling its Phillips' Dental Magnesia, and United Drug its Rexall Milk of Magnesia ToothPaste without competition? Third point was that the industrial future while looking less depressing than it did a few months ago, looks equally uncertain, and each skipper of the Drug Inc. flotilla wants plenty of sea room to ride out whatever weather lies

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Drug, Disincorporated | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...assets: $175,000,000). Although Drug owns the Liggett drugstores, its chief source of income is from making and selling such products as Fletcher's Castoria, Life Savers, 3-In-One Oil, Danderine, Bayer's Aspirin, Vitalis, Vick's Vapo-Rub, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Ingram's Shaving Cream, Gastrogen Tablets, Sal Hepatica, Ipana, Cascarets and scores of other things to purge, beautify, bolster and assuage mortal beings. A lesser fount of Drug income is in its control (75%) of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the owner of the 900 famed Boots Cash Chemists shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Boots | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...Dictator's decree, a tax equivalent to two U. S. cents has been laid on each cup of coffee served in a Turkish coffee house. Dictator Kemal, not pious, tipples champagne frequently. So potent is he, however, that last week only ancient Magnesia resisted the coffee tax. In all Turkey, only Magnesian coffee houses were shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Coffee Quarrel | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

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