[Magdalen] Ravages of Time.

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 7/6/15 12:44 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> Incidentally the "warf" in warfarin = Coumadin is for Wisconsin
> Alumni Research Foundation.  They've made a lot of money on
> that drug.

I didn't know that!  I knew the word from the time that it was the main 
ingredient in D-Con, before, as far as I know, it was ever used on 
humans, and assumed that it came from "warfare", as in "War Against The 
Rats" (and I did know what it _did_ to the rats, way back when).  So 
when I first heard it in connection with medication, I had a sort of 
black-humor snicker in my head.


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