Aspirin in its pure form has been manu-factured as well as marketed right since 1899s. In the year 1899, Felix Hoffmann made a particular formula and presented it to his father who was suffering from severe arthritis pain. The result was very effective and Hoffmann went ahead to market this drug to spread this miracle medicine. This is how Aspirin was first created; it was patented in the year 1900, on February 27.
Aspirin gets its name from its consisting ingredients, acetyl chloride ‘A’ and spiraea ulmaria ‘spir’ and another familiar name in medicine comprised of the suffix ‘in’ back then. The miracle medicine aspirin was initially sold in the form of powder. The first of the aspirin tablets were made only in 1915. Aspirin gained a lot of popularity during World War I and from then on emerged as the most sought after medicine of all times, till date.
