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Morphine: Difference between revisions

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Add Pendell's corner (Poeia)
Pendell's corner: verbatim (Poeia, p. 123)
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| quote  = Sertürner isolated her in 1804 and gave her the name of the god of sleep. She is the molecule that proved alkaloids existed; she is the prototype of every opioid that came after; she is the standard the modern pharmacopeia uses to measure the analgesic potency of newer cousins. Opium remembered itself in her, and the rest of the field is footnote.
| quote  = Opium is the archetypal medicine, and morphine is its essence. Morphine is the most powerful naturally occurring analgesic in the world, and the synthetics use opium as their precursor.
| volume = Poeia
| volume = Poeia
| voice  = curated paraphrase — replace with verbatim passage
| page  = 123
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