r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JennyFromTheBlockJok • 6d ago

The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, was such a firm believer in its medicinal properties that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it a day. During a bout of pleurisy in his 50s, he ordered his nurse to cover him from head to toe in the substance, and soon recovered. He lived to be 96. Image

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u/Stepane7399 6d ago

True story. I hadn't used Advil Cold & Sinus in some time when I got what I'm certain was the flu in 2012. I bought some Advil Cold & Sinus figuring that'd help get me as right as I could be and it did fuck all compared to how I remembered it. It was awful waiting hours for this shit to work. I then turned to Google to learn that it's because it was no longer pseudoephedrine and was instead phenylephrine, which I found to be useless for my purposes. It should be outlawed.

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u/TheGreatReveal-O 6d ago

Uhh? Advil cold and sinus 100% still has pseudoephedrine in it. Did you get the kind behind the pharmacy counter where you have to scan your ID? Because the other OTC shit has the phenylephrine

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u/Stepane7399 6d ago

No. I might have gotten Tylenol Cold and Sinus rather. It was 12 years ago. I did buy off the shelf. I never had to go to the pharmacy to buy in the olden days.

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u/TheGreatReveal-O 6d ago

Yeah, thank meth heads for that. But just word to the wise, if you need it, it is still available and it saves me regularly