# Help me shake this cold in the next 48 hours!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-shake-this-cold-in-the-next-48-hours/89569>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 25, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-shake-this-cold-in-the-next-48-hours/89569 "2001-10-25T15:46:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-shake-this-cold-in-the-next-48-hours/89569/21 "2001-10-27T13:30:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by tevya \*  
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> > _“Damsels young, beautiful and skilled in the sport of love, with faces glowing like the full moon of autumn and darting forth beams of love from their languid blue-lotus-like eyes, with eye-brows fumigated and scented … should be asked to take the patient into a firm embrace like a forest-creeper entwining itself around a sylvan tree, and the girls should be told to keep off as soon as the patient would feel himself heated. Susruta does not advise how to treat fever in women.”_ \*\*
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> I think they mixed up the directions, this seems as if it would make me fevered. Do you know a pharmacy where I can get this particular prescription filled? \*\*

I think you have to go to Nevada.

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