Tag: toxic drug
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The Tragedy That Transformed Medicine: The Legacy of the Tylenol Murders
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…
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Diethylene Glycol: The Deadly Molecule That Changed Medicine Forever
You can’t expect more from this small molecule of Diethylene glycol (DEG). Having a humbling origins of an ether of an antifreeze (CH2OH)2 , the DEG is one of the dozens interim substances in the process of manufacturing of polyester raisins. If only not a single blunder and a corporate greed that put it in…
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