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Spirea ulmaria (now known as Filipendula ulmaria), or meadowsweet, is the German namesake of Spirsäure (salicylic acid), and ultimately aspirin. The name Aspirin was derived from the name of the chemical ASA—Acetylspirsäure in German. Spirsäure (salicylic acid) was named for the meadowsweet plant, Spirea ulmaria, from which it could be ...
[14]: 46–55 [16]: 27 The word Aspirin was Bayer's brand name, rather than the generic name of the drug; however, Bayer's rights to the trademark were lost or sold in many countries. Aspirin's popularity grew over the first half of the 20th century, leading to fierce competition with the proliferation of aspirin brands and products.
Name of the drug Synthesis mechanism Year that was Patented Governmental approval Patented expired Synthesis discoverer Year 1803–1805 [28] Morphine: Gates synthesis [29] 1952 1820: Quinine (isolation) Woodward and Doering: 1944 1830s Santonin: 1832: Chloral hydrate: Justus von Liebig: 1832 1833: Diastase: 1853 Acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin ...
Faced with huge debt, the impending expiry of a crucial patent, and ongoing litigation over a horror acquisition, Bayer CEO Bill Anderson made a bold move a year ago to get his damaged company ...
Heinrich Dreser, 1897. Heinrich Dreser (1 October 1860 – 21 December 1924) was a German chemist responsible for the aspirin and heroin projects at Bayer AG.He was also a key figure in creating the widely used modern drug codeine.
1832: First synthesis of chloral hydrate, the first hypnotic drug, [329] by Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen; [330] Oscar Liebreich introduced the drug into medicine in 1869 and discovered its hypnotic and sedative qualities. [331] 1840: Discovery and description of Graves-Basedow disease by Karl Adolph von Basedow [332]
Felix Hoffmann (21 January 1868 – 8 February 1946) was a German chemist notable for re-synthesising diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin".
Trademarked in 1918, Anacin is one of the oldest brands of pain relievers in the United States. It originally contained acetophenetidin (phenacetin) and was promoted as "aspirin-free relief," but was reformulated in the 1980s following the FDA's ruling to withdraw phenacetin from the market in 1983 due to concerns over its carcinogenic ...