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Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer.
This Podcast Will Kill You
The History of Paracetamol
In 1893, a world-renowned clinical pharmacologist named Joseph von Merring ran some trials on this metabolite paracetamol comparing its efficacy and safety with existing fever reducers or painkillers. Paracetamol reduces fever and pain, but it's actually just as dangerous as acid analyte. It also interferes with oxygen transport by hemoglobin. In 1948, two researchers published a paper that outlined how par acetamol was actually the compound responsible for the fever-reducing or pain-reducing ability of acid Analyte. And so in the 1950s, it began to be sold. Just generically in 1953 and then as Tylenol in the US
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