Maybe it's because I've had the same headache for 3 days but I thought this history of the invention of aspirin was interesting, http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blaspirin.htm. You can also see a timeline having to do with aspirin on the Bayer aspirin website at http://www.wonderdrug.com/pain/asp_history.htm.
One of my great-great grandmothers talks about her headaches and the "wafers" she took to get rid of them in her diary. When I think about the pain relief choices we have now vs what our ancestors had, boy am I glad to live now!
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