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Profit didn't get us vaccine against rabies or acetylsalicylic acid. Researchers did, and we have universities for that. So there are alternatives, and probabl

• skookumchuck 7y ago
  It was profit-seeking Bayer that found a way to make aspirin in an industrial process and put it in wide use. "In 1897, scientists at the drug and dye firm Bayer began investigating acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines, and identified a new way to synthesize it.[2]:69–75 By 1899, Bayer had dubbed this drug Aspirin and was selling it around the world." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin