[stand watie]

i do NOT know that this is FACT, but a longtime "member in good standing" of a local CW Round-table near DC told me Saturday night,that the substance Dr Morton "invented" (now called HEROIN)was FIRST called "MORTONITE".

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.)

free dixie,sw

[Heyworth]

in the past, his information has been proved to be correct.

Ah, another impossible-to-verify Watie source. Let's see, a Google search of C.R.A. Wright and heroin shows 752 hits, all saying that Wright invented heroin. S.L.A. Morton and heroin shows zero. "Mortonite" shows only a bunch of people from towns called "Morton"

[Non-Sequitur]

i do NOT know that this is FACT, but a longtime "member in good standing" of a local CW Round-table near DC told me Saturday night,that the substance Dr Morton "invented" (now called HEROIN)was FIRST called "MORTONITE".

My God, just how stupid do you take us to be? If good ol' Doctor Morton had in fact "invented" heroin as you say he did - a claim not supported by any reference I'm aware of - then he would not have called it "Mortonite". He would have called it....diacetylmorphine. Or something close to that. The naming conventions for organic chemical compounds had been established by the French in the 1790s and had been accepted world wide. Heroin is called that for the same reason aspirin is called aspirin, because that was the name it was marketed under when Bayer introduced it.

However, you have given me inspiration. I propose that we give all future stand waite discoveries their only scientific label. I suggest we call them 'Moronite'.

[Heyworth]

Oh, and if you do the search on C.R. Alder Wright and heroin, you get 16,000 hits.

So, that's Wright invents heroin:16,000. Morton invents heroin, zero.