Patent medicine the patent medicines, some of their makers began replacing the opium tincture laudanum with acetanilide, a particularly toxic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug with analgesic as well as antipyretic properties that had been introduced into medical practice under the name "Antifebrin" by A. Cahn and P. Hepp in 1886. But this ingredient change probably killed more of the nostrum's users than the original narcotics did, since acetanilide not only caused an alarming cyanosis due to methemoglobinemia but was later discovered to cause liver and kidney damage. The occasional reports of acetanilide-induced cyanosis prompted the search for supposedly less toxic aniline derivatives, such
New Looks from an Old Lover The Single was distributed on a vinyl 7 inch, 45 rpm, phonograph record and is from the 1983 album "New Look", which hit #13 on the "Billboard" Top Country Albums chart, released on vinyl LP and Cassette tape. The song was also released on several other B. J. Thomas albums including: "Wind Beneath My Wings" in 1995 (Compact disk and Cassette tape), "The Best of B.J. Thomas: New Looks and Old Fashioned Love" in 2000 (Compact disk) and as an acoustic arrangement in duet with Etta Britt on, "The Living Room Sessions", in 2013, on Compact disk and Digital download.