History Of Morphine

Morphine is a drug that is extracted form the poppy seed and is classified as an opiate. The drug was founded in 1806 when it was first isolated from opium by Frederich Sertürner. When he isolated morphine it was then discovered that it is 10 times stronger than opium and from then he named the drug “morphium after Morpheus, the god of dreams” (Hart, 2014). The major success that followed the discovery of morphine then lead the scientists to further research into opium to find what else could be extracted from it. In addition to morphine, an upwards of 30 different alkaloids were discovers including the most noteworthy, codeine (Hart, 2014). Over the span of about 25 years after morphine was discovery it was slowly introduced to the medical