A young German chemist named Felix Hoffman, working for the Bayer company, tested aspirin on his sick father and tried to 1 persuade the company to put it into production.

一位在拜耳公司工作的年轻德国化学家菲里·克斯·霍夫曼，以生病的父亲做为阿司匹林的实验对象，并试图说服公司生产。

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The discovery of aspirin was inspired by Felix Hoffman's attempt to find a drug to ease his father's arthritis without causing the severe stomach irritation associated with the standard anti-arthritis drug of the time, sodium salicylate.

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