After the outbreak of the new corona epidemic, the demand for the antipyretic drug “Ibuprofen” (Ibuprofen) has increased. However, there is actually a touching story behind the hard-to-find ibuprofen: the invention of ibuprofen earns half a cent and maintains a simple and unobtrusive life throughout his life.
according to“Chinese Network”Adams, a pharmacist and bioengineer of the company ‘Boots UK’ invented the painkiller ‘Ibuprofen’ with his partners in 1961. Now, the drug’s patent has expired and various manufacturers have invested in the production of drugs, resulting in a variety of trade names, such as Advil, Motrin and Nurofen and so on. Ibuprofen is currently included in the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines, is one of the best-selling drugs in the world, and is also a life-saving medicine for patients with new crowns in various countries.
Looking back at history, Adams was born in a small village in Northamptonshire, England in 1923. His father was a railway worker. Due to his poor family, Adams dropped out of school at the age of 16 and worked in a company British pharmaceutical and cosmetics. company “British Boots” Apprenticeship in retail pharmacy. After a 3-year apprenticeship, Adams became a pharmacist and took a keen interest in science.
So, with funding from Boots, he completed a Pharmacy degree from The University of Nottingham and joined Boots after graduation, working on a project for penicillin production. He subsequently received a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Leeds.
Since the 1950s, Adams has been looking for a drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis without side effects to replace aspirin. Since aspirin, which came out in 1897, has to be used in very high doses, it often causes side effects such as allergic reactions, bleeding and indigestion in patients. As a result, aspirin fell out of favor in Britain in the 1950s.
Although Adams devoted himself to research for 10 years and ended in failure, a hangover accidentally cut the willows, which led to the birth of “Ibuprofen” for Adams. According to the report, Adams went out drinking with friends one night and had a throbbing headache the next day, but gave an important speech that day, so in desperation, Adams took about 600 mg of the drug in being tested, but found it very effective. This is the predecessor of “Ibuprofen”.
“Ibuprofen” was patented in 1962 and approved as a prescription drug seven years later. Adams also received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Nottingham. In 1987 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the Queen of England.
However, although the invention of “ibuprofen” made Boots a lot of money, Adams himself did not benefit from it. according to“Washington Post”Reports in 2019 stated that Adams and his development partners never made a dime after being patented in 1962.
Indeed, Adams once joked that he may be the only person in the company who has lost money from ‘Ibuprofen’ other than ‘Ibuprofen’ users, because he also paid £1 to apply for a patent. “refunded”.
Adams also later shared that the discovery of “ibuprofen” didn’t change his life, but what made him happiest was that hundreds of millions of people around the world were taking the drug he discovered, and that could help many people. Adams even discovered on a trip to Afghanistan in the 1970s that remote rural pharmacies along the Khyber Pass also sold his wonder drug.
In countless interviews since then, Adams has always displayed a humble and lovable exterior. Her son later became a scientist, but the whole family kept a modest and simple life.
Adams lived in a simple house on the outskirts of Nottingham, England in his old age. Whenever he has a headache, he will go to the pharmacy to buy “ibuprofen” like an ordinary person, and listen carefully to the clerk explaining the drug’s instructions to him, even though he himself is the person who invented the drug.
And this great historian also died in Nottingham on 31 January 2019, aged 95.
