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The cheapest prescription ever
There were stories about Dr. Watson, including some entirely unsubstantiated and probably scurrilous rumors, but I never really had any contact with him. I enjoyed robust good health and hadn’t a clue how to access the Infirmary. Indeed, I had little idea why one would even try to make use of it. To me it was simply a small building at the corner of Grand and Snelling that had little to do with us. That is until I came down with a very serious case of the flu. Coming from South Dakota and hardy immigrant stock, I was slow in coming to the realization that I probably needed help. So it was, on a dark, cold and blustery day that I finally found the door of the infirmary. I never got past the nurse at the front desk. When I mentioned my symptoms she immediately prescribed lots of 7-Up, and I left. No aspirin, no other relief, just advice to plug some money into the Coke machine and imbibe a lot of 7-Up with its curative fizz, sugar and lemon. I resented this advice at the time but have since come to realize that there often isn’t anything better than 7-Up for flu, but it is increasingly difficult to find.
Thomas E. Johnson
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