- This writing takes a brief look at the
history of the pharmaceutical development from the year of 1897 to the year of
1949. These 52 years overturned the pharmaceutical industry and shaped it to the
form that we today recognize. The end of the 19th century and the beginning of
the 20th century meant a strong industrialization and this also affected the
pharmaceutical industry. The mass production of pharmaceuticals was started and
the effect of the pharmaceuticals started to be more and more based on research
and not to guesses and folklore. No more the blood was spilled in the clinics
due to the bloodletting and the anaesthetic was treated a much more gently, than
just holding the patient to the operating table.
- The two most destructive and biggest
wars that mankind has every fought, happened also during these fifty-two years.
Wars like always, helped to develop different things and especially the
pharmaceutical industry. Without these two wars, the development of antibiotics
perhaps would have not taken a giant leap forward after the Second World War.
Without the First World War, Sir Alexander Fleming perhaps would have not ever
start his research on the recovery of wounds and in the area of natural
resistance and this way, happened to find penicillin few years after the war.
- The writing starts from the year 1897 when doctor Felix Hoffman from the German Bayer Company managed to synthesize acetylsalicylic acid. Few years after that, the acetylsalicylic acid was registered under the trade name of Aspirin. The writing ends to the years of 1945 to 1949. The United States of America dropped atomic bombs to the towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and this way ended the Second World War and opened the door to a new age, to atomic age. The years of 1946 to 1949 can be thought as a moral ending to a certain epoch. In 1945 the trial of Nuremberg was started, where the German doctors, researchers and political and military leaders were accused of committing crimes against mankind. The trial ended in 1949.
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