Dragan
>>urban legend ... <
Indeed. I hate to be a killjoy: while dehydration is a common treatment for heart failure and/or some other causes of fluid buildup in the lungs, in this case it needs to be "punctured and drained" which sounds more like a pleural effusion, in which case dehydration from drinking alcohol would not cause overnight resorption.
Great story, though!
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
