Is aspirin a harmless drug?

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Aspirin

Q. Is aspirin a harmless drug?

A. By no means. All drugs are more or less harmful. The growing practice of dosing with aspirin whenever one may feel a twinge of pain, which may be attributed to rheumatism or neuralgia is greatly to be deplored. Rheu­matism or neuralgia are usually due to some error in one's habits of living. Aspirin only con­ceals the difficulty without removing its cause. Increased bowel activity, the disuse of meat, tea and coffee, warm bath at night, more exercise in the open air-these are measures which will in most cases cause quick disappearance of painful symptoms and will leave no unpleasant effects behind. A hot fomentation or hot water bag over the seat of pain will very likely afford relief. Do not dope! All drugs are unfriendly to the tissues and do more or less harm when freely used. Some drugs are highly injurious in even very minute doses. Aspirin is less injurious than morphine but not harmless.

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