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Ep 29 Aspirin the Wonder Drug: Crossover w/ IDOP

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The History of Aspirin

After World War I, the aspirin market became a free for all and tons of different companies began producing and packaging aspirin. Bayer was still making a killing, but that was only until the British government's board of trade nullified the trademark on aspirin's name. In 1933, Hitler demanded financial support from this new monopoly, and gave it to IG Farben which would essentially bankroll the entire Nazi party.

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