Dispensary Corner 28 Jul 14
July 28, 2014
MYTHBUSTING Coke.
Part of the Blackmores Institute
Symposium that was a little easier
going at 4pm on a Friday was the
MythBusting section about Coca
Cola.
Sure, it doesn’t seem very
pharmacy oriented but Coke has
all kinds of pharmacy history.
For instance, everyone knows it
used to contain Cocaine, right up
until 1929.
It was also apparently originally
intended as a patent medicine
and was invented in the late
1800s by a pharmacist.
However, apparently a Coke and
an aspirin won’t give you a lift -
we can’t say we’ve heard that one
before.
NOW that’s a mouthful.
Yikes! Thankfully, Ashik Gavai
shouldn’t be needing any more
pain relief following the removal
of a record 232 teeth in a seven
hour operation.
The unfortunate patient had
suffered for some 18 months
before being brought by his
parents to Mumbai’s JJ Hospital
dental department, according to
BBC News.
The surprised doctors described
the boy’s condition as a very rare
“complex composite odontoma
where a single gum forms lots of
teeth.
“It’s a sort of benign tumour.”
The medical team said the
previous record number of teeth
extracted in such a situation was
37, the BBC reported.
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