[356] in Humor
Re: Japanese drug stops stool smells - paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (samuels@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 13 12:47:09 1994
From: samuels@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 12:41:41 -0400
To: humor@MIT.EDU, samuels@mitvma.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <XRjapan-smellURc39_4lA@clarinet.com>
Cc:
In article <XRjapan-smellURc39_4lA@clarinet.com> you write:
> TOKYO, July 10 (Reuter) - A Japanese company has developed a
>drug that stops faeces smelling, the Mainichi Daily News
>reported on Sunday.
> The drug, developed by a Tokyo firm called Dairin, could
>benefit health care workers by deodorising the excrement of
>bedridden patients, the newspaper said.
> A patient who took one pill after every meal would have
>odourless stools, it said.
> Called ``Etiquette View'' the drug is made out of natural
>ingredients and would be relatively cheap, selling at around
>3,000 yen ($30) for 90 pills, the report said.
> It quoted Susumu Oda, a professor of psychiatry at Tsukuba
>University, as being concerned about the possible social effects
>of such a drug.
> He said many Japanese were already obsessed with eliminating
>dirt and foul odours and some mothers even feared having to
>change their babies' nappies.
> ``I wouldn't want to see young people have easy access to
>them (the pills),'' he said.
