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#Opium Poppy to Morphine

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Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) to Morphine: Friedrich Sertürner (1804) and the Isolation of the First Plant Alkaloid

How a 21-year-old German apothecary apprentice isolated morphium from raw opium, founding the entire scientific field of modern alkaloid chemistry.

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