The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug: Aspirin
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The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug: AspirinEntry/Object ID
2025.2.25Description
Throughout the world we pop more than 200 billion little white aspirin pills every year. It is effective not only against everyday ailments, such as headaches and fevers, but also as a preventative treatment for heart attacks, strokes and even some types of cancer. Add to this its beneficial role in a host of other conditions from Alzheimer's to gum disease, and you have a medicine of unparalleled importance to humanity, not to mention the world of business. Yet until 1971 we did not even know how aspirin worked. In this fascinating book, Diarmuid Jeffreys follows the surprising and dramatic story of the drug from its origins in Ancient Egypt, through its industrial development at the end of the nineteenth century and its key role in the great flu pandemic of 1918 to its subsequent exploitation by the pharmaceutical conglomerates.Collection
Heather's Museum Acquisitions, BookCategory
Book