Essays About Aspirin

Many might think that they know what aspirins are, but do they actually know what it is and are the effects? What we know as the aspirin of today was formally invented by Felix Hoffman, who was a chemist working at Bayer in the late...

In America, more than 80 billion aspirin tablets are consumed each year. Aspirin is a trade name for acetyl salicyclic acid and is effective as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory drug. History Aspirins predecessors, derivatives of salicylic acids, have been used to treat a variety...

The oldest examples of aspirin were found on papyrus in ancient Egypt and in clay tablets in ancient sumeria. These described medicines made from willow tree bark extract and plants rich in salicylate. Western medicine also used these medicines to reduce fevers around 400 B.C,...

Abstract This lab synthesized aspirin from a chemical reaction, isolated the product using vacuum filtration, purified the product through recrystallization, and used melting point and TLC to characterize the product. Our product did not meet the marketability criteria of 65% yield and 99% purity. Our...

Discussion The stability tests revealed that the physio-chemical properties of the dispersible 75mg aspirin tablets weren’t maintained after repackaging into multi compartment compliance aids over 5 the week period. A weight uniformity test was conducted to ensure an accurate and consistent dosage form. It was...