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Drug Abitrage Lets Millionaire Mohringer Show Ferrari

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Andreas Mohringer owes his success to a bottle of Benadryl.

On vacation in England in the early 1970s, the Austrian entrepreneur caught a cold and bought some of the cough syrup, manufactured in those days by Parke-Davis & Co. Benadryl is now known mostly as an allergy remedy.