Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6842755 | System and method for automatic retrieval of structured online documents A method and system for automatic retrieval of a document linking to a starting document that has a static address on a data network. A sequence of commands that cause a browser in a computer system to navigate from a starting document to a target document on a data... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6529917 | System and method of synchronizing replicated data A replication method includes several acts. An identifier column is generated for each table of a tree of master tables, each of the master tables including a key column and an identifier column, wherein one of the master tables is a root master table, wh... | 03/04/2003 |