• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    So uh…

    https://www.si.edu/object/femicin:nmah_328382

    Physical Description

    salicylamide (225mg); acetophenetidin (160mg); caffeine (65mg); pyrilamine maleate (15mg); homatropine methylbromide (0.5mg) (drug active ingredients)

    Salicylamide is apparently roughly equivalent to aspirin, but uh…

    Acetophenetidin is also known as Phenacetin…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenacetin

    … and it was:

    withdrawn from medicinal use as dangerous from the 1970s (e.g., withdrawn in Canada in 1973,[2] and by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1983[3]).

    Whoops!

    Turns out its a carcinogen or causes carcinogenesis (cancer!), hemolysis (kills, lyses, pops your blood cells)… renal papillary necrosis, aka, it fucking kills your kidneys.

    Apparently, this shit killed Howard Hughes.

    … yeah I could look into the other active ingredients but I think we’re done here.

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        2 days ago

        Sure, yeah, cancerous, kidney and blood killing mydol.

        Here, drink this moonshine I made in my ole’ backyard, lead lined still, with some arsenic for flavor, its pretty much vodka.