Marc found this interesting photo. The caption explains that a nurse is handing out a pill to help prevent colds. Anyone know what the pills might be?
The information reads: FATAL TO FLU — A pill a day keeps the flu away! That’s the theory behind a cold-prevention campaign now being carried on among workers at Willys-Overland Motors, where the use of special immunization tablets have reduce colds by 80 percent and checked absenteeism. Here, a plant nurse passes the tablets out among “Jeep” girls on the company’s assembly line.
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I guess they’re either placebos or photo opportunity capsules.
Seriously, maybe it wasn’t spelled out exactly what it was in the press release so the enemy wouldn’t know. But did the US medical profession think they knew at this time how to prevent the flu? Remember, this was about 35 years after the Spanish Influenza epidemic claimed so many lives.
O the good old days when your employer/teacher/friends could give you drugs with out every one getting in trouble.
Working my way through college in the 70’s in car dealerships I can remember they had no problems giving us stuff for small problems.. but not any more