DID YOU KNOW

• Aspirin lowers the rates of colon cancer, leukemia and breast cancer.
• Aspirin is not a risk free drug as it can lead to fatal bleeding and painful stomach pain.
• If children with Chicken Pox or the Flu take Aspirin they are more likely to develop Reye's syndrome.
• Aspirin is still one of the best drugs available even though there are risks involved in taking it.
• Bayer estimates tha in the US 80 million aspirin pills a day are swallowed.

THE HISTORY OF ASPIRIN

Aspirin'sknown history dates back to Hippocrates, the Greek physician considered the father of medicene. In 500 BC, he used an extract from the bark of the white willow tree to releive pain. In 1897, the active ingredient, acetylsalicylic acid, was synthessed by Bayer chemist Felix Hoffman who was looking for a way to releive his father's rheumatism pain, according to Bayer. The drug hit the market as a powder in 1899 abd a year later became the first major medecine sold in pill form.