Aspirin : the remarkable story of a wonder drug / Diarmuid Jeffreys.
Aspirin : the remarkable story of a wonder drug / Diarmuid Jeffreys.
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New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N615.783/8
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English
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x, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
If you examine a man -- The bark of an english tree -- The puzzle takes shape -- The birth of a wonderdrug -- Patents, patients, and sell, sell, sell! -- The chemists' war -- Civilization could disappear -- The aspirin age -- A moral collapse -- Soluble solutions and costly competition -- So that's...
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New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2004.
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1st U.S. ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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Summary
"The story of aspirin goes all the way back to ancient Egypt, although how the drug works was discovered only in the 1970s. Its past embraces wars, epidemics, espionage, an Oxfordshire vicar, a forgotten Jewish scientist, the Industrial Revolution, a common tree, the Treaty of Versailles, the world's most powerful pharmaceutical companies, Auschwit...
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Aspirin : the remarkable story of a wonder drug / Diarmuid Jeffreys.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-322) and index.
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N615.783/8
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74VK2lwENOmb
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1582343861 (hc)
9781582343860 (hc)
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615.783
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991018192439702626
