Most Important Drugs Discovered In History

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Most Important Drugs In History

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Most Important Drugs In History

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Penicillin - 1942 Penicillin was first developed in

1928. Started to be used in 1942. The drug uses antibiotics to kill or

stop the growth of germs.

Sir Alexander Fleming

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Insulin – 1922 Since insulin was discovered in

1921, it has become one of the most thoroughly studied molecules in scientific history.

"Insulin can completely change the lives of diabetes patients," Swann says.

Frederick Banting

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Aspirin - 1899* Acetylsalicyclic acid is named Aspirin

by Bayer.

* Aspirin is one of the most common drugs with an estimated 700 to 1,000 clinical trials conducted each year.

* Aspirin – the drug widely used to deal with hangover headaches and many other minor illnesses – was developed in Germany by a chemical process described by research chemist Felix Hoffman on October 10, 1897.

Otto Bayer

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Ether – 1846 * William Thomas Green Morton

(August 9, 1819 – July 15, 1868) was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846.

* Diethyl ether, more commonly known as ether.

* Diethyl ether is a colorless, volatile, sweet solvent-like smelling chemical which finds use as a solvent as well as in various household products such as engine starting fluid.

William Thomas Green Morton

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