Good info. That's just the beginning too. At the same time pharma (or its infancy foot soldiers) was giving mercury sublimate and other detrimental concoctions, herbal medicine was thriving among the common people. Publicity (media) alone is the reason we ended up with the shit show we currently have. The pharma industry conspired to blacklist the growing herbal industry with the support of the courts of the day. It gets so much worse. 'Green Pharmacy' by Barbara Griggs is an excellent history of medicine and the old battle between the parties.