Word: phenacetin
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Caffeine, whether in coffee, tea or APC tablets (aspirin, phenacetin, caffeine), taken for a cold, definitely has a stimulating and sleep-postponing effect on a majority of people. But there is a substantial minority on whom, laboratory tests show, it has no effect at all. There are even a few people whom it puts to sleep...
...drugs that have, in at least a few patients, caused blood-cell damage. They include many of the most widely used sulfas and invaluable drugs universally prescribed for diabetes, arthritis, heart failure, epileptic seizures, tuberculosis, thyroid disease and emotional disorders. Even such old reliables as quinine and the painkillers phenacetin and aminopyrine are on the list...
...confused with the common analgesic tablets, aspirin-phenacetin-caffeine...
...pitfall for pathologists: if the patient has been taking medicine containing phenacetin (an ingredient of Anacin, for instance), the solution would be cloudy instead of reddish purple...
Federal Cold Treatment No. 1: a) one fever-chasing tablet (aspirin, phenacetin, or the like) 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...