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People used to live 800 years before, it's been going down ever since!
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Well, they hadn't isolated the chemical aspirin by 1800, it came about a century later, but Man has been using it since the Bronze age nevertheless. It's the meadowsweet, Spirea ulmaria (its old botanical name,) that gave its name to aspirin. The plant is sometimes referred to as "vegetal aspirin" in French although its most common name is meadow queen. Willow bark has been used to the same purpose as aspirin for centuries too. It must have been a dreadful winter when they had nothing to eat but bark and thus discovered its properties...
Still, I get your point, there has been progress, even in fairy tales:
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Shocking discoveries right in my home town.
