A medicine that reduces fever and eases pain, once commonly used but now mostly replaced by safer drugs.
From 'amido-' and 'pyrine' (from the chemical structure containing a pyrine ring). Developed in the late 1800s as pharmaceutical chemistry advanced, it was marketed under brand names like Pyramidon.
Amidopyrine was one of the first pain-relieving drugs that could be mass-produced in factories, revolutionizing medicine in the early 1900s—but it had serious side effects that newer medicines don't!
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