Remember when drugs were Bufferin, Ludens, Pepto Bismol and Geritol? None embarrassed you if found hanging about for visitors to see.
They were even suitable to mention at dinner conversations. Because they didn’t have anything to do with bladder leaks.
And you never had to check to see what was in them, because you believed if “Serutan was Natures Spelled Backwards,” it must be darn good for you. As such, you didn’t have to ask your doctor if it was okay to take “Natures Spelled Backwards” with your Vick’s VapoRub (or Buropav spelled backwards), a repellent so potent it not only muffled cold symptoms but killed most flying insects. Point is, all these regimes were simple and safe at any age.
Today, you have to make sure mixing your “Riskall Max” medication with Vick’s VapoRub doesn’t make your hairline grow down to your eyebrows.
What’s more, that magazine ad for Riskall Max may promise to prevent migraines, acid reflux, stroke and swelling of the face and nose. But on the next ad page in small type are the side-effects: “migraines, acid reflux, stroke and swelling of the face and nose.”
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