About Aspirin

I introduce about Aspirin today. I know the medicine in the opportunity some class. After, I am interested in that. I write about history of Aspirin.

Oddly, the man who invented aspirin did not think is was of much worth or would ever widely used. French chemist Charles Gerhardt first concocted it in 1853. He did a few quick tests with the medicine, then put it aside. For the next forty years it remained unknown to the world at large.

Finally, in 1893, a young chemist, Felix Hoffman at the Bayer Drug Company in Germany, rediscovered it.

Felix’s father was suffering from severe arthritis, but none of the known drugs at the time gave him any relief. When Felix happened upon the old French formula for aspirin, he mixed up a batch and gave it to his father. To his astonishment, his father’s pain was greatly relieved.

  Chemists at Bayer soon began mass-producing aspirin. First marketed in 1899 as a loose powder, aspirin quickly became the world’s most prescribed drug. In 1915, the company introduced aspirin in tablet form.

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