Tag: toxic drug

Discovery of Tylenol Acetaminophen—known as paracetamol in the Old World—was rediscovered not once, but three times. First by French scientist Gerhard in 1852, who hasn’t found it useful. Acetoaminophen got a second chance in 1873 in a laboratory of an American chemist, Harmon Northrop Morse, now considered the father of acetaminophen. This time paracetamol has…