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Blue 88 was a blue-colored pill that was a mix of calming drugs, mainly barbiturates such as sodium amytal, used to treat American soldiers in the Second World War who suffered from battle fatigue. In most cases, it was used to induce sleep.
Seirogan (Japanese: 正露丸, formerly 征露丸) is a pharmaceutical drug marketed in Japan as a treatment for the digestive tract (especially as an antidiarrhoeal), whose main active ingredient is "wood creosote" (also wood-tar creosote, or beechwood creosote [1]).
Blue mass, sometimes referred to as blue pill, an obsolete mercury-based patent medicine from the 17th century; Sildenafil (Viagra), sometimes referred to as the "blue pill" or the "little blue pill", since 1998, a medicine used to treat erectile dysfunction; Slang for Percocet, more specifically counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl
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An early example of a pill comes from ancient Rome. They were made of zinc carbonates, hydrozincite and smithsonite. The pills were used for sore eyes and were found aboard a Roman ship that wrecked in 140 BC. However, these tablets were meant to be pressed on the eyes, not swallowed. [3] [4] Defects/imperfections arising during tablet ...
Methaqualone is a hypnotic sedative.It was sold under the brand names Quaalude (/ ˈ k w eɪ l uː d / KWAY-lood) and Sopor among others, which contained 300 mg of methaqualone, and sold as a combination drug under the brand name Mandrax, which contained 250 mg methaqualone and 25 mg diphenhydramine within the same tablet, mostly in Europe.
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From September 2008 to March 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John A. Koskinen joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -63.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a 13.6 percent return from the S&P 500.