good for what ails you

Not everything in these preparations turned out to be good for what ails you, said Emily Beck, an assistant curator at the library — mercury was a not-uncommon ingredient.

This one’s good for what ails you.

Miss Velma T. Harkrader was going to enlist the aid of her chemistry class in mixing up some of her “good for what ails you” elixir.

“It wasn’t an explosion. It was more of a strong disagreement between some carbolic acid and nitrous oxide. Besides, I guess Miss Velma T. figures if I’m going to be in chemistry boot camp as punishment, she might as well put me to good use. She had me filling these jugs the other day. She’d just made up a new batch of one of her ‘good for what ails you’ elixirs.”

Good for What Ails You | 6 p.m.