The photo on the right is the printed set of warnings that came with my bottle of aspirin.
This set of warnings comes from the Veterans Administration pharmacy. As you can see it is long and detailed.
This is by way of discussing the preposterous nature of bureaucracy. These are the warnings we must take into consideration when we consume a pharmaceutical. No exception in this bureaucracy has been made for the fact that aspirin is one of the oldest known human medicinal treatments.
There are certainly harmful side effects to aspirin but it doesn't make an awful lot sense to do such extensive warning.
The father of medicine, Hippocrates, prescribed aspirin just as it would be prescribed today. He did not know of its potential use in reducing heart attacks. Otherwise he knew most of its important usage. He certainly did not print out a seven page wanting to the users. Hippocrates, of course, is the man who established the ethics for medicine.
You may also know that pharmaceuticals were widely used throughout the world well over 6000 years ago. In most archaeological digs, all over the world, from roughly 6000 years ago you will find 21 common pharmacopia items. The ones that are obvious to us today, aloe and aspirin were there along with the other 19 that were also probably effective.
There was widespread trade and travel 6000 years ago.
All of this is brought up when I see the seven pages or more of a warning about aspirin. Have we really made the world of pharmacopia better in the past 6000 years with long printed bureaucratic warnings?
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