The bark of the willow tree contains a substance called salicin, a known antidote to headache and fever since the time of the Greek physician Hippocrates, around 400 B.C. Bayer® scientist Felix Hoffma...The bark of the willow tree contains a substance called salicin, a known antidote to headache and fever since the time of the Greek physician Hippocrates, around 400 B.C. Bayer® scientist Felix Hoffman discovered that adding a chemical tag called an acetyl group (see figure, page 20) to salicylate made the molecule less acidic and a little gentler on the stomach, but the chemical change did not seem to lessen the drug's ability to relieve his father's rheumatism.
The bark of the willow tree contains a substance called salicin, a known antidote to headache and fever since the time of the Greek physician Hippocrates, around 400 B.C. Bayer® scientist Felix Hoffma...The bark of the willow tree contains a substance called salicin, a known antidote to headache and fever since the time of the Greek physician Hippocrates, around 400 B.C. Bayer® scientist Felix Hoffman discovered that adding a chemical tag called an acetyl group (see figure, page 20) to salicylate made the molecule less acidic and a little gentler on the stomach, but the chemical change did not seem to lessen the drug's ability to relieve his father's rheumatism.
