Editing Mickey Finn (drugs) (section)

==Society and culture==

===Media===
The ''OED'' gives a chronology of the term, starting in 1915:<ref>{{cite news|work=Oxford English Dictionary|title=Mickey Finn|date=1915}}</ref> 
*The 1915 citation is from a photograph of a [[Western saloon|saloon]] in the December 26 edition of the ''[[Los Angeles Examiner]]''. In the photograph is a sign that reads: "Try a Michael Finn cocktail". 
*In the September 3, 1927 issue of the ''[[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]]'', the phrase appears in an article on the use of [[ethylene]] for artificial ripening of fruit: "Applied to a human, ethylene is an anaesthetic as the old-time Mickey Finn in a lumber-jack saloon."<ref name="ChicagoDailyTribune_1927sep3">{{Citation |title=Synthetic sun to ripen fruit while its iced |newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |date=September 3, 1927 |page=17}}</ref>