antibiotic = 'effective medicine'

[Jonathan Lighter]

A "diagnostic" example.

Ashleigh Banfield of CNN, interviewing a woman who was cured of a horrible
brain illness, repeatedly describes the treatments as "antibiotics." More
specifically, they were "Prednazone and immune therapies."

JL

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