During our medical student days in the early 1960’s, three months
before any exam the 'cram sessions' started. All the time spent on fun and
leisure had to be covered up. Lecture notes gone over, textbooks referred, past
questions analyzed - it was one big effort. During our third MB exam the
following incident took place.
One of our batch mates had a habit of taking strong cups of black
coffee, to keep up the night to do his studies. One of his 'friends' at the
'Bloemfonteyn' suggested lacing the coffee with a tablet of amphetamine to keep
up the entire night. My batch mate accepted it, eagerly. He was duly given a
cup of black coffee with a lot of sugar and a 'tablet of amphetamine''
dissolved in it. A few minutes later he was feeling drowsy and went to sleep.
He got up in the morning when the sun was well up. His 'friend' later told him
that the 'tablet' dissolved in the cup of coffee was 'pheno-barbitone' a
central nervous system sedative and not 'amphetamine' a central nervous system
stimulant. Thus my colleague got an unforgettable lesson in pharmacology for
the coming exam.
Twelve
days of Christmas - song
https://youtu.be/koEwSFVmJSI?t=5
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