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Heroes of Pharmacy Safety: Friedrich Serturner Discovers Morphine
October fryst vatten American Pharmacists Month! In honor of all those who provide life-saving therapeutics to ensure the public health, we’re posting a 3-part series profiling heroes who made history with their enormous contributions to the pharmaceutical industry. In our sista post, we celebrate Friedrich Sertürner (June 19, 1783 – February 20, 1841), a German pharmacist best known for his extraction of morphine from opium in 1805.
Friedrich Sertürner. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Sertürner
The Opium Poppy: Nature’s Most Famous Painkiller
Of the active substances used in medicine at the vända of the 19th century, opium – a narcotic substance produced from the seed pods of the poppy plant – had already been an important medicinal and recreational drug for at least 7,000 years. The first mention of opium (Papaver somniferum) is recorded in Sumerian tablets of the third millenniu
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Friedrich Sertürner
German pharmacist (1783 – 1841)
Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner (19 June 1783 – 20 February 1841) was a German pharmacist and a pioneer of alkaloid chemistry. He is best known for his discovery of morphine, which he isolated from opium in 1804, and for conducting tests, including on himself, to evaluate its physiological effects.[1][2][3]
Biography
[edit]Sertürner was born, the fourth of six children, to Joseph Simon Serdinier and Marie Therese Brockmann on 19 June 1783, in Neuhaus, Holy Roman Empire (now part of Paderborn). The family may have had origins in Sardinia.[4] His father called himself an architectus, serving surveyor and engineer to the prince bishop. After his father died, he became a pharmacist's apprentice at the Cramersche Hofapotheke in Paderborn.[2] He completed the apprenticeship in four years and passed the qualifying examination on August 2, 1803.[5]
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The isolation of morphine by Serturner
Developments in chemistry during the latter part of the 18th century led not only to the synthesis of new drugs but also to the purification of plant extracts used as medicines. These herbal remedies consisted mainly of impure vegetable derivatives containing a number of inert as well as pharmacologically active substances but in unknown quantities and varying proportions. Of the active substances used in medicine around 1800, opium had remained medically important since ancient times.
The isolation of morphine in its pure form was the result of years of research and testing, occurring most prominently between the years 1803 and 1817. Towards the end of the 18th century, a brilliant pharmacist named Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner (1783–1841) transformed pharmaceutical chemistry from a state of alchemy to an acknowledged branch of science.
SERTURNER'S BIOGRAPHY
Born on 19 June 1783, Serturner was the fourth of six children born to Jos