Toxic Twists

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Are you getting ready for holiday parties? Setting out mixers? Choosing wine? Primping? A few things have changed over the years. See if you can answer these toxic twists!

• Until the 1920's, this soft drink contained traces of cocaine. Do you know what it was?
• This soft drink's original name was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda". Do you know what we call it today?
• To appear more beautiful, women would distill this herb and drop it into their eyes. What herb is it?
• This substance was used as a cosmetic to give skin a fashionable, artificial pallor. What is the substance?
• Ancient Romans sweetened their wine with this substance. What was it?

Rose Ann Gould Soloway, RN, BSN, MSEd, DABAT emerita
Clinical Toxicologist