Aspirin
Oddly, the man who invented aspirin did not think it was of much worth or would ever be widely used. French chemist Charies 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-producting aspirin. First marked in 1899 as a loose powder, aspirin quickly became the world’s most prescribed drug, in 1915, the company introduced aspirin in tablet form.
阿斯匹林
说来奇怪，阿斯匹林的发明者当初并不认为这种药物有多大价值，更没想到它日后会被广泛应用。1853年，法国化学家查理·杰哈德。检测了阿司匹林几次之后，就将其束之高阁了。在随后的40年里，整个世界对此几乎一无所知。
直到1893年，德国拜尔制药公司的年经化学家菲利克斯·霍夫曼新发现了阿斯匹林。菲利克斯的父亲得了严重的关节炎，但是当时已知的所有药物都无法缓解她的疼痛。一个偶然的机会，菲利克斯得到了法国的阿斯匹林配方。于是他便按照这个老配方，给父亲配制了一些阿斯匹林药剂。让她吃惊的是，父亲的疼痛居然大为缓解。
拜尔公司的化学家们很快开始大批量生产阿斯匹林，并于1899年将其投入市场，当时的阿斯匹林还是粉末状的。很快，阿斯匹林就成为世界上最常用的处方药。1915年，拜尔公司退出了阿斯匹林片剂。
