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==Other appearances==
==Other appearances==
In [[1555]], [[Francois de Noailles]] accused [[Evelyn Smythe]] of plotting to use the aspirin she brought with her to poison Queen Mary. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Marian Conspiracy]]'')
*In [[1555]], [[Francois de Noailles]] accused [[Evelyn Smythe]] of plotting to use the aspirin she brought with her to poison Queen Mary. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Marian Conspiracy]]'')


In [[1979]], Professor [[Chronotis]] offered Chris Parsons some aspirin for his headache. ([[DW]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'', [[WC]]: ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]'')
*In [[1979]], Professor [[Chronotis]] offered Chris Parsons some aspirin for his headache. ([[DW]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'', [[WC]]: ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]'')


By the [[25th century]], aspirin was no longer used. [[Barbara Wright]] got some aspirin from [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s first aid kit for [[Vicki]]'s headache. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]'') Later, the Doctor no longer carried aspirin in his TARDIS. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Race]]'')
*By the [[25th century]], aspirin was no longer used. [[Barbara Wright]] got some aspirin from [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]'s first aid kit for [[Vicki]]'s headache. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Web Planet]]'') Later, the Doctor no longer carried aspirin in his TARDIS. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Race]]'')


==Behind the Scenes==
==Behind the Scenes==

Revision as of 09:35, 5 February 2010

Aspirin was a drug used by Humans in tablet form to relieve mild pain.

Aspirin and Time Lords

Aspirin is apparently a fatal poison to Time Lords.

  • An attempt was made on the Sixth Doctor's life when an alien who knew Time Lord physiology poisoned his tea with soluble aspirin. The Doctor managed to counteract the aspirin by eating chocolate, a source of simple triglycerides which the Doctor's body easily absorbed, and which counteracted the "anti-platelet effect of the aspirin." (BFA: The Condemned)
  • The Eighth Doctor, frustrated by the lack of service he finds in a local government building, claimed he wanted to take an aspirin for the headache he'd gotten from the situation. Given aspirin's poisonous effects on Time Lords, this can be taken as a bit of dark humour on the Doctor's part. (BFA: Caerdroia)

Other appearances

Behind the Scenes

The tablet which would have killed the Doctor in The Mind of Evil was not specified to be aspirin. It it was assumed to be so, and became fanon, after Kate Orman specified the Doctor's weakness toward aspirin in The Left-Handed Hummingbird.[1]

Aspirin