Everybody knows the real purpose of Coca-Cola is cleaning battery terminals in cars. It’s amazingly effective.
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misoprostol is actually a stomach medication (protects against ulcer development) which has been found to cause uterine contractions. It’s used as you note as part of the abortion-pill sequence, and also to help induce labor (though there are signficant safety concerns with that). It’s a component in a medication I’m currently taking, and there’s a BIG RED LABEL on the bottle saying “NOT FOR USE BY PREGNANT WOMEN”.
Mifepristone does indeed appear to have some use in treating some cancers, which was news to me.
I use Requip, which is a Parkinson’s drug; that class of drugs was being used off-label to treat Restless Legs Syndrome for a number of years before the makers saw dollar signs, did formal studies to prove their efficacy, and then marketed them for RLS treatment.
Common during gulf war as well. Now they have molded covers. Guess the officers or P.C. types frowned on the condoms.
Jello did actually used to be available in some unusual flavors though: chocolate, celery, Italian, mixed vegetable and seasoned tomato.
The Italian, vegetable and tomato flavors are related to aspics, which used to be rather popular. More often than not, if you had gelatin, prior to the Jell-O revolution, you were eating an aspic.
Tampons are also used for a variety of other bleeding issues (besides the obvious). My husband carried them in his med pack when he was deployed when he was an IDMT (independent duty medical technician) for use from everything from nosebleeds to some bullet wounds (so he says, I have my doubts about that one).
Pfizer got a $142 million smackdown today for marketing Neurontin as a treatment for migraines* and bipolar disorder.
Which it is.
MitzeKatze, why do you doubt it? As I have already said, that’s why they were invented.
I suspect very few pipe cleaners are actually sold for cleaning pipes anymore, rather than for elementary school craft projects.
But my top choice would be paintball guns, of which there may still be some sales to cattleyard operators for marking cows, but not many.
When the Neutragena Wave commercial first came out I couldn’t help imagining the people who invented it secretly conspiring to figure out a way to create a masturbation tools for teenage girls that could be marketed as something innocuous.
And of course it’s amazing how many bottles of video head cleaners are still being sold now that everyone has DVD and Blueray players…
I spent 15 months there in '68 / '69. Never heard or saw that while I was there. Maybe it was a localized thing. Dunno. Interesting concept though.
The M16’s flash suppressor was modified from the original which tended to catch stuff while tramping through heavy/tall vegatation. Hard to describe/visualize, but it changed from a 3 fingered open to a fully closed design.
Blunts - presumably at one point upmarket ‘snack sized’ cigars. Now selling mango and cherry flavour wraps for their new (blunted, and chronic toting) market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunt_%28cigar%29
When my mother had chronic ulcers on the back of her legs, I used Kotex for bandages. I just used tape to hold 'em together and socks to keep them in place. They were the type used with a belt. I never knew that I was actually using them the “right” way!
Oh, and about the tennis balls - what, no love for street hockey?! Same goes for lacross balls.
I’ve heard that models sometimes use toothpaste on pimples. I think that one may be brand specific so I’m guessing it’s something to do with a particular ingredient.
I always thought that tampons came about because during the Crimean War the female nurses would use rolls of bandage material to sop up menstrual blood…
Warfarin, Coumadin, and several other brand names for the same chemical.
Originally developed as a rodenticide, they are still used that way today, even though other more effective rat poisons exist.
However, the chemical was also found, at lower doses, to be an effective anti-coagulant, and is used in medicine today. For a while I was giving my dad rat poison, after his his replacement surgeries!
I hate to be that guy, but it wasn’t. Guy was an engineer, had worked on damping for ships, had springs lying around at work, noticed springs were fun, marketed a toy.
Oooh: and then joined a weirdo cult somewhere in south america, leaving his long-suffering wife to run the Slinky Co!
I’ve also seen tampons in home made emergency survival kits for use as tinder.
I bet it was antiperspirant.
My first thought was that it works because antiperspirants make the skin swell (just enough to close off the sweat glands), but a quick websearch shows that isn’t it.
Found this at mothernature.com: