1897

 

Hoffman invents the acetylsalicylic acid  

1898

 

Trade name Heroin appears to market  

 

3rd of March, 1899  

Bayer registers and patents Aspirin  

 

1899  

Trade name Aspirin appears to market

   

1904  

Novocaine appears to market  

1905  

One form of arrhythmia is recognized and it’s being treated effectively with digitalis

 

1908  

The quality of sulpha is recognized  

 

1909 The substance combination of 606, is noticed to destroy effectively the bacteria of syphilis

1910  

Salvarsan, the substance combination 606, appears to market

1912  

Neosalvarsan or just 914, appears to market and is a bit improved version from Salvarsan 

 

1st of August, 1914  

First World War begins

 

1915  

Gas is used for the first time in combat against the French, in the battle of Ypres

 

11th of November, 1918 First World War ends
June 1919  

The Treaty of Versailles is signed  

 

1922  

Alexander Fleming manages to isolate a substance from a tear, that acts as a natural resistance with humans and animals

 

1923  

United States of America and the League of Nations ban the use and selling of Heroin  

 

1923  

Bayer is unable to give dividend to its investors, first time in the company history  

 

1925  

Bayer merges with several other chemical companies, into the IG Farben Trust

1925 – 1929  

Digitalis and digitoxin is isolated from the Digitalis Purpurea

 

1928  

Alexander Fleming happens to invent in accident the penicillin

 

1930  

Wellcome Company launches Lanoxin

1932  

Prontosil Rubrum is recognized  

 

1935  

Prontosil appears to market

 

1938  

English researchers start their work to manufacture penicillin in mass-production  

 

1st of September, 1939  

Germany invades Poland. Second World War begins

 

20th of May, 1940  

Auschwitz I opens

27th of January, 1941  

Penicillin is injected into a person for the first time in history 

 

1943  

German researchers are convinced that asbestos is dangerous to humans

1945  

Penicillin is finally available in such a numbers, that civilians and soldiers both are able to use it  

 

8th of May, 1945  

The war in Europe is over

 

14th of August, 1945  

Japan surrenders, after USA drops atomic bombs to the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The atomic age begins

   

20th of November, 1945  

The trial of Nuremberg begins

1947  

Gerhard Domagk, the inventor and researcher of Prontosil, collects his Nobel price

 

13th of April, 1949

 

The trial of Nuremberg ends

 

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