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No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Process of Naming Drugs and Funny Gene Names

This chapter discusses the challenges of naming drugs to avoid offense in different languages and highlights funny names given to genes in medicine. It also mentions the invention of heroin and aspirin by Felix Hoffman and their marketing as a cough remedy.

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