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Word: c9hso4 (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...chemists isolated salicylic acid and thought they had a wonder drug, only to have physicians drop it quickly because it had too many harmful side effects. In 1853, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt did a bit of molecular manipulation in his Strasbourg laboratory and made acetylsalicylic acid (C9HSO4). Having found it, he failed utterly to appreciate its value, and put it on the shelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: The World's Best Is Also the Cheapest | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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