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Letter sent by the Surgeon Generals of the Army, Navy, and the U.S. Public Health Service to physicians in the Armed Forces: Number 6, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Information of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council, United States Public Health Service,
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Letter sent by the Surgeon Generals of the Army, Navy, and the U.S. Public Health Service to physicians in the Armed Forces: Number 6, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Information of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council, United States Public Health Service,
During World War II, the supply of aspirin, also called “acetylsalicylic acid,” was greatly impacted. This letter relays that, while plentiful in the United States, in Germany (or German-controlled territories) the drug was in short supply and had to be substituted or done without.