The History of Aspirin

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This sounds like a very 1800s kind of thing to me like was that the high point for ingesting crazy substances as potential miracle cures? Oh no, can go much earlier. So you know different herbs and some of the things that we would think now are like oh so basil, right? Or peppermint different mints that were soothing on the stomach or let me do a combination of you know a little bit of mint with penny royal and add in these kind of concoctions that you inherited from you know grandma whoever and it just seemed to work. And again the fun thing is from a natural products thing there's a lot of things that you carried forward and you're like that actually did

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