This brief traces the story of one of our most common medicines - aspirin. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, the authors explain the use of aspirin during the First World War, the development of competition drugs such as ibuprofen during the interwar years, and the application of aspirin to heart disease in the 1950s and 1960s.
This brief traces the story of one of our most common medicines - aspirin. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, the authors explain the...
From the isolation and development of the first alkaloids with morphine that relieved pain within the home and on the battlefield, to the widespread use of nostrums and the addiction crisis that ensued, to the dissemination of drugs by what became known as Big Pharma after the World Wars;
From the isolation and development of the first alkaloids with morphine that relieved pain within the home and on the battlefield, to the widespread u...
