Today I’m launching an origin series on some common treatments and how they came about. From bitter willow bark to a household name, this is the story of Aspirin. For thousands of years, people brewed willow bark for aches and fever. In 1897, Bayer chemists acetylated salicylic acid to make a gentler, more effective compound and, by 1899, branded it “Aspirin.” At the very same time, Bayer also marketed diacetylmorphine as “Heroin,” promoted then as a cough remedy and morphine substitute, two pro

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