Buffered aspirin is developed at the University of Iowa. When dietitian Kate Daum, head of the Department of Nutrition, complains of a headache to William D. “Shorty” Paul, she declines aspirin because it upsets her stomach. So Paul, a professor of rehabilitation, adds a buffer to the aspirin; the remedy relieves Daum's headache without making her nauseous. Bristol-Myers later learns of Paul’s remedy and eventually markets the product as Bufferin. A antacid verson of the producet, Rolaids, is introduced years later.
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Saturday, January 1, 1944
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