[Flick Lives]

Aspirin?....................... a miracle drug!..............

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Actually, it is a bit of a miracle drug, and it has been used all the way back to the time of ancient Egypt.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Unfortunately, aspirin was a new synthetic mass-manufactured drug introduced just before the Spanish Flu hit and it was prescribed by the handful to flu sufferers. There's a lot of evidence the over-use of aspirin contributed to the high death toll of the Spanish flu.

In 1918 Pandemic, Another Possible Killer: Aspirin