Felix Hoffman: the Founder of Aspirin.

Aspirin is a very important medicine and has been around since 1900 when Felix Hoffman and Friedrich Bayer and Company invented it. Born on January 21, of 1868 in Germany Felix Hoffman studied chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Munich and obtained his Doctoral degree there in 1894. He started working for Bayer in 1894 as a chemist. Hoffman's father had extreme pain form arthritis inspiring Hoffman to find a painkiller. Hoffman did a lot of research and study …

…attacks leading to the FDA's decision 50 years later, in 1998, to expand the use of aspirin to include reducing risk of death during a suspected heart attack, as well as for preventing a recurrent stroke. Aspirin today finds a multitude of uses, including the treatment of migraines, muscle pain and inflammation, arthritis and even some cancers. In the United States alone, men, women and children are estimated to ingest at least 15 million aspirin tablets per year.