Role Pharmacist | Name Friedrich Serturner Known for Morphine | |
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Died February 20, 1841, Hamelin, Germany | ||
Friedrich Sertürner, El Farmaceuta Que Creó La Madre De Todas Las Medicinas Y Redefinió Nuestras
Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner (19 June 1783 – 20 February 1841) was a German pharmacist, who discovered morphine in 1804.
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- Friedrich Sertrner El Farmaceuta Que Cre La Madre De Todas Las Medicinas Y Redefini Nuestras
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Biography
He was born on 19 June 1783 in Schloß Neuhaus (now part of Paderborn).
As a pharmacist's apprentice in Paderborn, he was the first to isolate morphine from opium. He called the isolated alkaloid "morphium" after the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus. He published a comprehensive paper on its isolation, crystallization, crystal structure, and pharmacological properties, which he studied first in stray dogs and then in self-experiments. It was not only the first alkaloid to be extracted from opium, but the first ever alkaloid to be isolated from any plant. Thus he became the first person to isolate the active ingredient associated with a medicinal plant or herb.
In the years following, he investigated the effects of morphine. However, it only became widely used after 1815. In 1809, Sertürner opened his first own pharmacy in Einbeck. In 1822, he bought the main pharmacy in Hamelin (Rathaus Apotheke), where he worked until his death in 1841.
