Show EFFECTIVE KILLER navy discovers potent remedy for colds the united states navy was manifesting its efficiency again but in an entirely different field veering away from its military side for the moment the navy found a cold killer pill that was reported 90 per cent effective the fight to control the common cold has been one of the longest most difficult in all medical history A great majority of physicians have expressed a conviction that the common cold like the poor will always be with us the navys cold killer has been named idin derived from meaning the common cold and cide to kill the pill must be taken at jhc thc th birj ars ign of a cold to insure its maximum efficiency that it was discovered accidentally ci is beside the point in reporting the navys findings capt john M brewster who carried out the research said that a cold was considered to have been aborted or cured when all signs and symptoms disappeared completely within 24 hours of the beginning of treatment and remained absent for at least 43 hours after treatment stopped at present the cold killer is purchasable only on a doctors prescription it comes in tablet form its red coating contains a small amount of the newly perfected antihistaminic drug |