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a tiny round verdict on whether you live, sleep, or stop loving someone.
means A small, usually round dose of medicine meant to be swallowed whole — and by extension, anything (or anyone) hard to take.
from From Latin 'pilula,' a 'little ball,' the diminutive of 'pila,' meaning ball. The word rolled through Old French and into Middle English still tiny and round, and English kept both senses: the literal medicinal pellet, and the figurative 'tough pill to swallow,' where the swallowing is metaphor and the bitterness is real.
- sugar coat
- Hard candy shells were invented to hide bitter medicine
- placebo power
- Fake pills work better when colored red
- first oral contraceptive
- The Pill rewrote society in 1960
- swallow trick
- Tilt head forward, not back, for pills
aspirin — first synthesized by bayer in 1897, now the world's most widely used medication
viagra — pfizer's sildenafil pill approved by fda in 1998, revolutionized erectile dysfunction treatment
birth control pill — enovid approved by fda in 1960, first oral contraceptive for women
penicillin tablet — fleming's discovery in 1928, first mass-produced antibiotic pill that saved millions