Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Don't Blame Me, I Didn't Even Know the Guy

Now there's something a family can be proud of. One of my distant ancestors led the pharmaceutical research team at AG Bayer in Germany in the 19th century. He was credited with two breakthroughs. One was Aspirin. The other was Heroin. It was actually one of his employees, Felix Hofman who figured out how to stabilize ASA in tablet form but Heinrich raked in the bucks. As for heroin, they believed it was far less addictive than morphine,'heroic' even. Guess they got that one wrong.



4 comments:

penlan said...

Pass the little bottle please? Feel a political fall & injury coming on. ;)

LeDaro said...

It is getting closer. Any relation to Karlheinz Schreiber? :)

The Mound of Sound said...

Not yet LD, not yet.

Fish said...

lol

I can think of a few other Germans that might be worse to have in your family tree!