BingDing
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When Crichton was in med school he published several books under the pseudonym of Jeffery Hudson. Whatever the name, all his books are full of factoids.
"A Case of Need" is a whodunit in a medical setting. Talking about post WWII medicine, he says that by 1965 three of the four most commonly prescribed drug classes-- antibiotics, hormones (mostly the Pill), and tranquilizers-- were all postwar innovations. Then in a footnote he says
"A Case of Need" is a whodunit in a medical setting. Talking about post WWII medicine, he says that by 1965 three of the four most commonly prescribed drug classes-- antibiotics, hormones (mostly the Pill), and tranquilizers-- were all postwar innovations. Then in a footnote he says
The fourth class, analgesics, was mostly that old standby, aspirin, synthesized in 1853. Aspirin is as much a wonder drug as any other. It is a painkiller, a swelling-reducer, a fever-breaker, and an antiallergic drug. None of its actions can be explained.