History of Chemistry

What is a medicine substance that many people go to when they are getting a runny nose, bad cough, or a headache? Vicks created a substance around the 1960s that helped with these types of symptoms. Nyquil is the main thing people will use when they get these sick symptoms. The history of Nyquil and its relations to chemistry are substantial. There are four questions asked to relate Nyquil to Chemistry and they are: What was society like before it, How did natural resources limit or advance it, how is Nyquil affecting society today, and how will it affect our future?

Before Nyquil was made many people used or did certain remedies. Looking at a medicine point of view people would use Vicks rub and a Pixen. Others would use whiskey which is always something everyone used back in the day. However some people will use house remedies like taking showers and humidifiers. Nyquil isn’t the only thing that has the medicine in it. It just has more things to cure.

There are multiple natural resources in Nyquil. Acetaminophen is a part of the medicine that derives from coal tar. This part of it helps with your fever and has a painkiller in it. Dextromethorphan HBr nuetrilizes the cough you have. It helps the most because it can come from the environment. Doxylamine succinate is the antihistamine that will take you out. It makes you really sleepy really fast. That is why people use it a lot around night time. Citric acid is the part of the serum that kills the flu in you. Alcohol is used in Nyquil to hold the other three solutions in place. It also is used in older times it to take the pain away. Polyethylene glycol and propylene glycol is used as a thickener. This is combined with water and honey. Also there i...

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...y hard work you actually read it. Sorry for the interruption… Anyway Nyquil may or not be a huge impact on our future society itself, but medicine all together will be.

In conclusion, Nyquil is very much related to Chemistry. It has affects due to resources found in nature. The same that chemists use to conduct chemical experiments. Also they use metric conversions in Chemistry. When using Nyquil you have to measure out the amount of serving sizes so you don’t injure yourself. Society before Nyquil was alright on a medical level. However having Nyquil in our society today has had a major impact on it. When we get to the future there may or not be a new better medicine that works better or is even cheaper. I believe chemists will have a no problem with that. Chemistry runs hand and hand with medicine. I wonder what will come later in the medicine world.