while a medical student in 1959s , we were taught[Pharmacology] that 'the difference between medicine and poison was, sometimes in degrees only e.g Mprphine' . Also I wrote a short story (on that basis) that a poor man suffering from poverty and many dieases decided to end his ife . he went to a store and bought a botte of poison with label (100% pure) and written on it that "if taken orally, a person would die in an hour (garaunteed),
The man bought it and drank it whole. After six hours , it was found that , he not only failed to die but was CURED of all his Diseases in a month.
The man sued the shop -keeper and it was proved that the POISON was adulterated and worked like Medicine. ( the story--abridged ).
The spurious drugs flooding the market, today, may work in the similar way, you never know !
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