"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Not So Modern Medicine: The story of aspirin. As an aside, the origin of the word aspirin to denote acetyl salicylic acid has shades of its garden origins - A for acetyl, SPIR from Spiraea ulmaria, the botanical name for meadowsweet, one of the shrubs from which the salicylic acid can be extracted, and IN, a common chemical suffix used to denote a manufactured substance. posted by Sydney on
9/16/2002 08:00:00 AM
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