I was recently listening to the radio and heard about a book “Who Knew?: Things You Didn’t Know About Things You Know Well” and it reminded me of a story that that our safety and pharmacovigilance director, Dr. Rodney Lemery, told during a webinar earlier this year.
Where did the name Argus Safety come from?
The story goes like this: Zeus, the Greek god, had a wife named Hera. He also had a mortal lover named Io. In order to escape detection by jealous Hera, Zeus turned Io into a heifer. However, Hera couldn’t be fooled and asked Zeus to give her the Heifer as a present. Zeus had no choice but to oblige. Once Zeus gave her the heifer, Hera ordered a 100-eyed giant to make sure Zeus and Io would never be together again. That giant’s name was Argus Panoptes. And, that’s how Argus Safety came to be – the most comprehensive way to monitor and report adverse events.
While we may not always question how names of products came to be, it certainly can give you a different type of appreciation for those products.
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