Nobel prize

[123everton]

Did the person who discovered aspirin get a Nobel prize?
Cos they deserve it, I had a terrible hangover today, imagine what it was like before aspirin.
The only thing I've learnt since last night, is to lay off the shooters, knocking em back made me feel as though I had ingrowing fingernails!

[NazNomad]

He died in 1856, the Nobel prize started in 1895. :-)

[123everton]

Should start a Facebook campaign for a posthumous award, lol.

[jno]

in olden times people used to treat aches and pains with willow bark, which has the same ingredient. So you'd have been gnawing at a tree.

Apparently soluble aspirin works twice as quickly.

[jno]

erm, that's twice as quickly as a straight aspirin pill, not twice as quickly as eating a tree.

[123everton]

As I understand it in Victorian times they used opium.
I had to go out and buy some soluble aspirin today, just sucked them on the way home.
If there are reports of a man with rabies woandering around the streipool tomorrow, don't worry, it's only me and my hangover.

[jno]

Queen Victoria took cocaine, I believe. People took what they could get for pain.

She asked for anaesthesia during childbirth. Clergymen protested on the grounds that God in the Bible said 'In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.' However, Prince Albert pointed out that God himself had put Adam to sleep before creating Eve out of his rib, so the queen got her way.

[VHG]

And the reason we have the Nobel prize is that Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite (amongst other things) was worried that after he died he would only be remembered for how many people it had killed.

In fact when his brother died, one paper printed the wrong obituary, and published the one for Alfred Nobel instead, with the headline "The merchant of death is dead".

Strange reading your own obituary.

Anyway, to ensure he was remembered for good things after his death he donated all his money to fund the organisation that gives out these Nobel prizes.

[Buenchico]

You'd better backdate that posthumous award a long way. The Sumerians were using a form of aspirin 5000 years ago!

Chris

[Scylax]

Beware, Everton 123, aspirin is a much more powerful drug than people generally realize. Just a small dose has a dramatic effect upon one's blood platelets, reducing their numbers to the point where cerebral and other haemorrhages can occur.

Intestinal haemorrhage isn't very pleasant either. Far better to use some other analgesic.

[123everton]

Cor blimey, I didn't realise that hangover was so dangerous, lol.