• cannedtuna@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I was reading that article and thinking, wait, isn’t this just the futuristic medicine shown in Star Trek that cures all illnesses? Then at the bottom:

      The term “hypospray”, although better known from its usage in the 1960s television show Star Trek, is attested in the medical literature as early as 1956.

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      9 days ago

      I remember my dad telling me about that when he joined the army. He said they had to line up like cattle and go down a line, and they were multiple guys with those injector guns on both sides of you and you’d get hit in both arms as you went.