TY - BOOK ID - 133677417 TI - Aspirin : the remarkable story of a wonder drug PY - 2005 SN - 9780747570837 PB - London : Bloomsbury, DB - UniCat KW - Aspirin KW - Aspirine KW - Popular works KW - Ouvrages de vulgarisation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133677417 AB - "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, Auschwitz, a mercurial advertising genius, and much more. Bringing alive a compelling cast of characters in a dazzling journey across centuries, Diarmuid Jeffreys reveals how chance and design brought the drug into being as we know it at the end of the nineteenth century, and how intrigue, greed, and ambition combined to make aspirin one of the most commercially successful products of all time."--BOOK JACKET. ER -