Asprin
Description
Aspirin, as we know it today, was launched a little more than a hundred years ago, but the compound in aspirin dates back to antiquity. This film investigates the history of the most used drug in the world. Bayer laboratories in Elbefeld, Germany, was the first to mass-market this new drug in 1899. The first drug to be sold in tablet form, it is also the best selling drug in history. Because aspirin is used to treat everything from headaches to heart disease, some 100 billion people have taken it his wonder drug.
Runtime
60 min
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2000
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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