Aspirina: La extraordinaria historia de una droga maravillosa by Diarmuid Jeffreys

Aspirina: La extraordinaria historia de una droga maravillosa

Diarmuid Jeffreys

358 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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Diarmuid Jeffreys traces the story of aspirin from the drug's origins in ancient Egypt, through its industrial development at the end of the nineteenth century and its key role in the great flu pandemic of 1918, to its subsequent exploitation by t...

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