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If anyone else wonders, Aspirin is a trade name for regular ASA (acetylsalicylic acid) painkillers.
by xorcist 3y ago
If anyone else wonders, Aspirin is a trade name for regular ASA (acetylsalicylic acid) painkillers.
- ggm 3y agoThe word became the generic in Europe after WW1 and is said to come from the acquisition of Bayer IPR in war reparations. I think like Thermos and Hoover they just didn't trade mark police adequately.
- Reason077 3y agoLikewise “Heroin”. Also an originally a trade name marketed by Bayer & Co.