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Aspirin

By Diarmuid Jeffreys

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| Hardcover | 9780747570776

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Book Description

Americans take millions of aspirin each year, little dreaming that the seemingly ordinary pill is one of the most amazing creations in medical history.

Aspirin is a drug so astonishingly versatile that it can relieve your headache, ease your aching limbs, lower your temperature, and treat soContinue

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I love books like this! Not only is the narrative story of Aspirin fascinating, it is so packed with wonderful, trivial tidbits I will attempt to impress family and friends (much to their dismay) with for years to come.

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SWReader said on Nov 25, 2009 | Add your feedback

Interesting and pleasant read

Jeffreys digs through the history of the world famous Aspirin pill telling the story of several interesting characters, from a shady archeology trader, to the english Reverend Stone and several business men and chemists before and after the Great War. The book is a very interesting read of the histo ... (continue)

Jeffreys digs through the history of the world famous Aspirin pill telling the story of several interesting characters, from a shady archeology trader, to the english Reverend Stone and several business men and chemists before and after the Great War. The book is a very interesting read of the history of the drug through a series of entertaining facts and anecdotes (which might not be entirely true perhaps, but are excellent material for any dinner with friends), from the original discovery of the drug, to the advertising wars and the trademarking of "Aspirin" by Bayer.
Strongly suggested, if not else just to know a bit more about this wonderful drug. "Aspirin has become a drug for everyman, a treatment so inexpensive and so broadly useful that it is hard to imagine what we should do without it. There are few products of human ingenuity about which that can be said."

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