My friend I agree with you. The ignorant are attempting to peddle their DISinformation, and seem to be of the opinion that food could not be cooked until microwaves were invented, that laundry could not be done until the washing machine was perfected, and that all medicines just appeared out of thin air in the late 19th/early 20th century. </sarcasm>
full disclosure here, i'm NOT a DOCTOR (nor do i play one on TV!), NOR an "expert on medicines" but when i took a "local HS age group" to Colonial Williamsburg YEARS AGO, the docent at "the Apothecary Shoppe" told the students that aspirin was one of the common medicines of THAT period too. (i'd guess that the Colonials got the formulation from the AIs).
free dixie,sw