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1874: St Mary's Hospital, London, chemically produced...
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1874
St Mary's Hospital
, London, chemically produced the drug heroin from morphine; it was later patented in the 1890s by the pharmaceutical company Bayer
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Berridge, Virginia, and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England. St Martin’s Press, 1981.
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