Recent research has thrown new light on the widely used medicine

Prof Dr BM Hegde

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” — Mark Twain

A chemist with as many as 40 patents, Arthur Eichengrün, a Jew, was the first to discover aspirin in 1897. He was the head of pharmaceutical research in Bayer. Being a Jew, he was to be sent to a concentration camp when Hitler came to power. His own assistant, a German Nazi, Felix Hoffman, is now known the world over as the inventor of this drug, since Bayer could not give credit to a Jew. However, Bayer was kind to its best scientist and provided him with the best single room in one of the more humane concentration camps till he died! Reader’s Digest dated April 1954 has the entire story under the caption, “The Most Useful Drug”.

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