which marks you as too ignorant to discuss almost ANYTHING about the 19th century with,rationally.
in point of fact, DR. S.L.A. MORTON invented the drug we NOW call HEROIN in 1848 at a hospital in London, by "washing crude morphia base with dilute hydrochloric acid".
by 1860 (the drug we NOW call) heroin was routinely prescribed (mixed with aspirin) for everything from broken bones to toothache. (that is why drug addiction was called the "doctors malady" in that period. there was, of course, no "pure food & drug act" then.)
Dr. Morton was TRYING to find a "cure for morphia dependence", when he "discovered" heroin AND a safer alternative to MORPHINE, to use as a analgesic.
GEN grant had been given the drug for a "fall the patient suffered from a horse".
free dixie,sw
Aspirin and Heroin were both synthesized by a German chemist, Heinrich Dreser , working for Bayer around the turn of the century. Bayer even copyrighted the name.
There were some preliminary work done on both in England during the 1870-80s but this did not become commercial. I have seen nothing crediting the gentleman you refer to with either though he could well have been experimenting with similiar drugs.
In point of fact you are making this crap up as you go along. Again.