From my post above: 'Gerhart discovered how to "buffer" aspirin in 1853, but the purified unbuffered aspirin (salicylic acid) was produced in 1838 by Italian chemist Raffaele Piria.' That does not mean that salicyclic acid was unavailable prior, just that it was then easier to mass produce it. The father of medicine wrote about using chewing willow leaves/bark to alleviate pain, just as native Americans have known about it's benefits.
As for "Aspirin", yes, the chemical substance was developed earlier, but aspirin, as "aspirin" was trademarked by Bayer in 1899 and then marketed around the world.
stand did not claim Grant ingested BAYER Aspirin. We drink small amounts of a tea made from yaupon berries during the annual Green Corn ceremony (a caffeinated diuretic for spiritual and physical cleansing), we don't take pills. I guess because it's not in pill form, mass produced by some pharmacuetical giant that the medicinal properties/caffeine are non-existant.
You and your cohorts have attempted to "prove" that Grant could not have ingested "aspirin" because it wasn't invented until 1897. I've simply proven that aspirin, buffered and unbuffered existed prior to that, and before the war.
And yet until the "aspirin" name went into the public domain (as reparations for WW1), only Bayer made "aspirin." And pure, unbuffered salicylic acid just isn't the same thing as aspirin. And again, Watie didn't claim Grant was sipping willow bark tea or eating pure salicylic acid. He said he was taking heroin and aspirin for a toothache. At best you're saying that he speaks imprecisely, despite his German-historical-novel source.
I've simply proven that aspirin, buffered and unbuffered existed prior to that, and before the war.
So what are you asking us to believe, that the knowledge of how to buffer salicylic acid was such common knowledge after 1853 that anonymous American pharmacists were producing it, but that Bayer was able to come in 46 years later and make billions on it because no one had thought to market it?
nonetheless, you are dealing with HATERS, bigots & lunatics, who don't WANT to know the TRUTH, as the truth is NOT on their (pitiful) side.
their "stock in trade" is IGNORANCE of the FACTS, blather,ad. hominum. attacks, evasions,SELF-righteousness, KNOWING lies & arrogance. (those qualities have forever been the mark of a DY!)
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in the past, his information has been proved to be correct. (i wouldn't know where to even "start looking for" the supposed 1st name of the drug.)
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talk about being CLUELESS & HAVING NO LIFE!
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