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Flowing Juices. What seems to be acid indigestion, usually with nausea and belching, has the same causes as heartburn. An antacid tablet may help. The catch is that the layman usually cannot tell the difference between this and a medically significant form of indigestion. This inflammation of the stomach (gastritis) is part of the pattern of peptic ulcer. Then the trouble is not a simple backup of the evening's Scotch, steak and potato but a too-free flow of hydrochloric acid and other digestive juices from the stomach walls into the stomach itself and the duodenum. The excess...
Machines at New Jersey's Sterling Drug Inc. have just produced their 100 billionth Bayer aspirin tablet for the in satiable U.S. market. All in all, U.S. industry now manufactures 27 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...
...still the best palliative for an astonishing variety of ills, ranging from the common cold to the crippling deformity of rheumatoid arthritis. After 65 years of high-pressure research, surprisingly little is known about how aspirin works, but one thing is comfortingly certain: at about half a cent a tablet it is the world's cheapest drug...
...Western Tablet & Stationery Corp. has changed to Westab, and American Steel Foundries to Amsted Industries...
...Norlestrin (Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co.), a new, small-dose tablet. >Norinyl (Syntex Laboratories, Inc.), another new, small-dose pill...