Before Aspirin... Pain Relief Was Different

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Aspirin, simple, ubiquitous, everywhere.

[00:00:03][music] Aspirin, or ASA, acetylsalicylic acid, that's a mouthful, [music] eh?

[00:00:10]It is one of the most widely used medicines in the world. Developed by scientists at Bayer in the late 1800s, it was one of the first drugs to be produced in a standardized and reliable way. And it works as a pain reliever, a fever reducer, and anti-inflammatory.

[00:00:26]It's even used to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes as it thins the blood by inhibiting [music] blood clots. Today, millions of people take it daily. It represents a major step in modern medicine.