The Isolation of Morphine—First Principles in Science and Ethics

Table 1.

Isolation of alkaloids

Year Compound Investigator
1817 Narcotine Robiquet
1818 Strychnine Caventou & Pelletier
1818 Veratrine Meissner & Caventou
1819 Colchicine Meissner & Caventou
1820 Caffeine Runge; Caventou & Pelletier
1820 Quinine Caventou & Pelletier
1822 Emetine Pelletier & Magendie
1827 Coniine Giesecke; Geiger & Hess
1828 Nicotine Posselt & Reimann
1831 Aconitine Mein; Geiger & Hess
1832 Codeine Robiquet
1833 Atropine Geiger & Hess
1833 Thebaine Pelletier & Dumas
1842 Theobromine Woskresenky
1848 Papaverine Merck
1851 Choline Babo & Hirschbrunn
1860 Cocaine Niemann
1870 Muscarine Schmiedeberg & Koppe

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  1. MI October 2001 vol. 1 no. 4 189-191