Fitness Smarts
April, 1994
Aspirin Doesn't get a lot of respect. The stuff is so, well, rustic. So ordinary. Common as a cold and as easy to get. It seems too old-fashioned to take seriously.Truth be told, aspirin is old-fashioned: Twenty-four hundred years ago, Greek women chewed willow bark--which is rich in salicin, the raw essence of the drug--to ease the pain of childbirth. Before the turn of the century, the German chemical company Bayer was manufacturing synthetic salicylic acid. By 1915, Bayer had introduced table...
