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Hippocrates gives willow leaf tea (the plant were aspirin is from)to women in order to ease the pain of childbirth. -
Reverend Edward stone is able to treat fever with aspirin -
Salicylic acid made from salicin (willow tree bark) by French scientists but it is found to irritate the gut, so it changes the older perception about the potential miracle. -
The first studies show the link between the aspirin medicine and colon cancer -
US Preventive Services Task Force recommends aspirin for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer