{"id":2866,"date":"2008-05-03T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2008-05-03T21:59:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T05:59:38","slug":"serendipitous-germans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/05\/03\/16\/01\/serendipitous-germans\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipitous Germans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2003\/01\/06\/030106crbo_books?printable=true\">Diamorphine, also known as heroin, was first synthesized for commercial use in 1897. The men who discovered it, Felix Hoffman and Arthur Eichengrun, had also, a couple of weeks earlier, invented aspirin; for some years, heroin could be bought over the counter and aspirin required a prescription.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Irony is intense here, and the article is &#8220;technically&#8221; correct in that heroin was first synthesised in 1897 for commercial use. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MFbm2SRUUNsC&amp;pg=PA5&amp;lpg=PA5&amp;dq=%22Alder+Wright%22+heroin&amp;source=web&amp;ots=e51nbOai1I&amp;sig=GojXqzvAGg0tkGO2Vq1eMejfCdk&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">G.H. Beckett and C.R. Alder Wright were the first people known to have actually synthesised heroin<\/a>, a generation earlier in 1874.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamorphine, also known as heroin, was first synthesized for commercial use in 1897. The men who discovered it, Felix Hoffman and Arthur Eichengrun, had also, a couple of weeks earlier, invented aspirin; for some&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638,632,635,634,631,637,636,633,639,161],"tags":[1480,1474,1477,1476,1473,1479,1478,1475,1481,1393],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acetylsalicylic-acid","category-arthur-eichengrun","category-aspirin","category-bayer","category-cr-alder-wright","category-diacetylmorphine","category-diamorphine","category-felix-hoffman","category-gh-beckett","category-heroin","tag-acetylsalicylic-acid","tag-arthur-eichengrun","tag-aspirin","tag-bayer","tag-cr-alder-wright","tag-diacetylmorphine","tag-diamorphine","tag-felix-hoffman","tag-gh-beckett","tag-heroin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}