Launched 100 years ago in the Bayer laboratories in Elberfeld, Germany, aspirin was the first drug to be mass-marketed, the first to be sold in tablet form and the biggest selling drug in history. A wonder drug treating everything from headaches to heart disease, some 1000 billion people have consumed aspirin tablets.

Launched 100 years ago in the Bayer laboratories in Elberfeld, Germany, aspirin was the first drug to be mass-marketed, the first to be sold in tablet form and the biggest selling drug in history. A wonder drug treating everything from headaches to heart disease, some 1000 billion people have consumed aspirin tablets.