The History of Chemistry

By the mid 19th century, the need for alternative pain killers or fever reducers was enormous. The British Empire especially wanted a ton of quinine to protect their officers and administrators of tropical colonies from malaria. Chemists first directed their focus towards extracting compounds from natural sources like willow bark or Cinchona bark. But then with the birth and rise of industrial chemistry, chemists began working on the synthetic production of drugs.

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