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Heroin, Bayer and Heinrich Dreser (2286 words) |
 | Dreser was admired for his thorough, methodical approach, and for his innovations in testing (he was, for example, the first chemist to use animal experiments on an industrial scale). |
| Dreser had already written about the drug in medical journals, and studies had endorsed his view that heroin could be effective in treating asthma, bronchitis, phthisis and tuberculosis. |
| Eventually, Dreser recognised which way the wind was blowing, tested ASA on himself (as well as on his laboratory of rabbits), and finally published an enthusiastic scientific paper recommending it, particularly for the treatment of rheumatism - but omitting to mention the contributions of Eichengruen and Hoffmann. |
| the beneficent utility of illusion (324 words) |
| Heinrich Dreser, a chemist working for Bayer Pharmaceuticals, introduced the consumer world to diacetylmorphine in 1897. |
| Salophen also was encouraged for the maintenance of genitourinary tract health and promised to relieve the symptoms associated with the ubiquitous nineteenth century catch-all ailment, rheumatism. |
| When Dreser was presented with the compound for heroin, he also received that for acetylsalicylic acid; which he deemed relatively worthless. |
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