Tonight I saw a TV advertisement for Tylenol that included a quick
shot of a slide rule. The ad showed a woman, who from the setting in
the scene is apparently a science teacher, talk about some of her
health problems that have developed as she has aged. When she talks
about doing her "research" to find a pain reliever that will not
interact with some of her prescription medications the scene briefly
cuts to a desk with books on it and a slide rule sitting right in the
middle of it. I couldn't identify the rule but it did have a lot of
scales on it.



I wonder how you would use a slide rule to research known drug
interactions? I guess that even after all these years of calculators
and computers the slide rule still carries a mystique of intelligence
to it! :-)



Paul H.

Livonia, MI