¶ … Aspirin from when it was first discovered to its relevant use today, and include when Aspirin was first discovered and its initial therapeutic use. It will also discuss today's therapeutic use to its initial market use. When Aspirin was first discovered, people considered it a wonder drug, and today, it is still one of the most commonly recognized and used drugs in the world. Aspirin has been replaced in many therapies by synthetic derivatives, but Aspirin is still a vital drug for treating a variety of aches, pains, fever, and even reduce the threat of heart attacks. Technically, aspirin is an acetyl derivative of salicylic acid (ASA), used to "lower fever, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and thin the blood" ("Aspirin"). A chemist at the Bayer Company in Germany first created Aspirin in 1897. Dr. Felix Hoffmann, the discoverer, was looking for something to help ease his father's rheumatism when he isolated the drug. However, Egyptians and Greeks recognized the healing properties of salicylic acid in willow bark thousands of years before Hoffmann...

The original patent on the drug was issued in Berlin in 1899, and initially, it was sent to pharmacies in powder form, and then dispensed to patients in small paper bags, weighing 1 gram each. Bayer patented the drug in the United States in 1900. In addition, in 1900 it was introduced in 500 mg tablets, and so it became one of the first medicines to be distributed in "standardized dosage form" (Editors). Aspirin grew in popularity every year, and by 1909, it accounted for almost one-third of Bayer's sales in the U.S. (Editors). Initially, people used Aspirin for a variety of uses, including helping the aches and pains of rheumatism and arthritis, reducing fevers, and even in preventing dangerous and deadly diseases such as the flu epidemic that swept Europe and America in the 1920s. One European newspaper advised, "As soon as you feel ill, take to your bed with a hot water bottle at your feet, drink hot chamomile tea, take three Aspirin tablets a day. If you follow these rules, you'll be fit and…