Aspirin removes strong headaches, also back pain, collaborates with migraine and even has the property of preventing heart attacks.At the end of 2010 it was discovered that it can be useful, in addition, to prevent some types of cancer, such as colon, lung and prostate, among others.However, do you know when and how aspirin was invented?
Brief history
Several years before his invention, it was known that the bark of white willow was able to fight fever in a positive way.In 1828, J.Buchner separated from the bark an active ingredient that I call salicillin Later, R.Piria managed to unfold the salicillin in salicylic acid and in sugar.In 1853, F.Gerhardt managed to artificially elaborate, that is to say synthesized, the acetylsalicylic acid (active substance of aspirin) for the first time.
The mechanism used by Gerhardt was too complicated and the product achieved very unstable, was decomposing with relative ease.It was then that Felix Hoffman (a chemist from the Bayer company) entered the scene who, in 1897, was able to synthesize from coal tar , acetylsalicylic acid of magnificent purity, greater stability and with less side effects than that developed by Gerhardt.The chemist of the Baye company r thus achieved the substance converted into one of the most famous drugs of the World: Aspirin.
Properties
Aspirin is composed of salicylic acid and is used to relieve moderate pain ( analgesic ), to deflate ( anti-inflammatory ), to fight fever (antipyretic) and to treat blood clotting problems s angre.
Aspirin was the trade name devised by the Bayer laboratories for the tablet made with acetylsalicylic acid synthesized by F.Hoffman.It is one of the most widely used medications worldwide; It is estimated that approximately one hundred million aspirins are consumed per day.Although it is not called Aspirin , today there are other brands that contain the same drug.
Seventy and two years after the scientist Felix Hoffman discovered Aspirin, he traveled to space aboard the first aid kit of the astronauts who stepped on the Moon in 1969.
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