| 1899 y. |
Today the universal healing qualities and wide dissemination in medicine give grounds to call unplayable one of the main drugs of the twentieth century.But what was until that moment, as invented aspirin? "Traditionally our ancestors to alleviate fever and pain relief for water infusion of willow bark or willow.
Willow bark has been known in ancient times, with the help of her treating various infectious diseases and gout, it was used to relieve pain and reduce the temperature.In 1763, the priest Edward Stone made the Royal Society of London on the curing ague infusion of willow bark.
And in 1838 it was shown that the active component of willow bark is salicylic acid.Later, the Italian chemist Rafael Piria isolated from willow bark salicylic acid, the chemical composition of the substance and successfully synthesized it.It was called salicylic "spiraevoy" acid.But the practical application of medicinal salicylic acid did not received.Only 15 years later began to be used the sodium salt of salicylic acid.To obtain other forms of salicylic acid, therapeutic properties which could be even more effective, an employee of Bayer, Felix Hoffman developed a technology to produce acetylsalicylic acid.
The product has received the commercial name "aspirin".This name is composed of two parts: "a" from acetyl and "Spirit" from Spiraea, the Latin name meadowsweet - plants, from which the chemical was first isolated salicylic acid. |
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