Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 15, 1962
October 14, 1962
October 16, 1962
Transcript:
"Charlie Brown says to Lucy, \"Well, did you take your 'feeding' of sabin oral polio vaccine?\"<BR><BR> Lucy says, \"Oh, yes they put the drops on a sugar cube and I chewed it right up . . . Of course, this was after I got into the argument with the nurse . . .\"<BR><BR> Lucy says, \"Well, it wasn't exactly an argument . . . It was more of a discussion . . .\"<BR><BR> Lucy says, \"My dentist is against eating sugar cubes!\"<BR><BR>" dialogue-text,"Charlie Brown says to Lucy, \"Well, did you take your 'feeding' of sabin oral polio vaccine?\"<BR><BR> Lucy says, \"Oh, yes they put the drops on a sugar cube and I chewed it right up . . . Of course, this was after I got into the argument with the nurse . . .\"<BR><BR> Lucy says, \"Well, it wasn't exactly an argument . . . It was more of a discussion . . .\"<BR><BR> Lucy says, \"My dentist is against eating sugar cubes!\"<BR><BR>"
This eating of sugar cubes to help with the polio vaccine is the basis of the song, “A Spoonful of Sugar” helps the medicine go down.