
Aspirin: A Bitter Pill
Launched 100 years ago in the Bayer laboratories in Elberfeld, Germany, aspirin was the first drug to be mass-marketed, the first to be sold in tablet form and the biggest selling drug in history. A wonder drug treating everything from headaches to heart disease, some 1000 billion people have consumed aspirin tablets.
- 1998
- 0 Hrs 50 Mins
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Launched 100 years ago in the Bayer laboratories in Elberfeld, Germany, aspirin was the first drug to be mass-marketed, the first to be sold in tablet form and the biggest selling drug in history. A wonder drug treating everything from headaches to heart disease, some 1000 billion people have consumed aspirin tablets.
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