Salicylic acid is an organic compound.
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Salicylic
//sælɪˈsɪlɪk//
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Polish
1 entries- salicylowy adj (derived from salicin)
Romanian
1 entries- salicilic adj (derived from salicin)
Russian
1 entries- салици́ловый adj (derived from salicin)
Spanish
1 entries- salicílico adj (derived from salicin)
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Salicylates come from salicylic acid and its derivatives.
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A drug like aspirin is said to have been used in ancient Greece. More than two-thousand-four-hundred years ago, Hippocrates told his patients to ease pain by chewing the outer covering of the willow tree. The covering, called bark, contains the chemical salicylic acid.
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Aspirin, for example, was derived in the 19th century from salicylic acid, a long-time remedy for pains and fever found in plants like willow and meadowsweet. It was developed and marketed by the German company Bayer.
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