1830 NEWHAM, William (1790 – 1865)
Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.
In this conceptual anticipation of later ideas in psychopharmacology Newnham argued that dreams, visions, apparitions and other apparently spiritual manifestations, whether good or bad, arose from physiological rather…
GMN 12104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14313
1888 KAST, Alfred (1856 – 1903)
Sulfonal, ein neues Schlafmittel.
Introduction of sulphonal, previously discovered by Baumann.
GMN 1884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2481
1933 VIALLI, Maffo (1897 – 1983); ERSPAMER, Vittorio (1909 – 1999)
Cellule enterocromaffini e cellule basigranulose acidofile nei vertebrati. (Ricerche istochimiche.)
Vialli and Erspamer reported “enteramine”, which Erspamer and B. Asero (Nature, Lond., 1952, 169, 800-01) found to be identical with 5-hydroxytryptamine, isolated and named serotonin by M. M. Rapport et al. in 1948 (J…
GMN 1924.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2713
1938 LA BARRE, Raoul Weston (1911 – 1996)
The peyote cult.
The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.
GMN 13291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15557
1957 CARLSSON, Arvid (1923 – 2018); LINDQVIST, Margit; MAGNUSSON, Tor
3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine and 5-Hydroxytryptophan as reserpine rntagonists.
Carlsson demonstrated that dopamine was a neurotransmitter in the brain and not just a precursor for norepinephrine. Digital facsimile from nature.com at this link. In 2000 Arvid Carlsson shared the Nobel Prize in Phy…
GMN 14250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16569
1958 WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986); HEIM, Roger (1900 – 1979)
Les champignons hallucinogenes du Mexique. Études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques.
GMN 12215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14426
1960 ABRAMSON, Harold Alexander (1899 – 1980)
The use of LSD in psychotherapy: Transactions of a conference of D-Lysergic Acid Diethymlamide (LSD-25), April 22, 23 and 24, 1959, Princeton, N. J. Edited by Harold A. Abramson.
GMN 13748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16032
1964 MECHOULAM, Raphael (1930 – ); GAONI, Y.
Isolation, structure, and partial synthesis of an active constituent of hashish.
Mechoulam and Gaoni showed that the active ingredient of "one of the most widely used illicit narcotic drugs," the flowering tops of Cannabis sativa, is "pure tetrhydrocannabinol" (THC). This they called the "psychoto…
GMN 14091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16402
1971 GRINSPOON, Lester (1928 – 2000)
Marijuana reconsidered.
A cultural classic on the understanding of the marijuana experience, and reform of prohibitions against marijuana use by a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Besides describing marijuana's psychologica…
GMN 14298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16622
1977 CLAASSEN, V.; DAVIES, J. E.; HERTTING, Georg (1925 – 2014); PLACHETA, P.
Fluvoxamine, a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake inhibitor.
Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, used primarily for the treatment of major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is also used to trea…
GMN 13698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15980
1998 RÄTSCH, Christian (1957 – )
The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications.
Describes the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, preparation, and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants and fungi. The encyclopedia also offers information on ritual and medicinal use. Also includes 168…
GMN 11892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14097
