Frederick Sertürner

Standard Name: Sertürner, Frederick

Used Form: Frederick Serturner

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German pharmacy assistant Frederick Sertürner isolated the drug morphia from opium; it became widely available in Britain from the 1820s.

Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.

Historians Duin and Sutcliffe give 1803 as the year of this discovery. However...

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