Good News in History, May 21
On this day 210 years ago, a pharmacist’s apprentice in Paderborn, Germany, discovered the valuable properties contained in opium. Friedrich Sertürner named its active ingredient “morphium” after the Greek god of dreams, and later renamed it morphine. This lifelong pharmacist was the first person to isolate an alkaloid as an active ingredient from a medicinal plant. (1805)
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