1582 RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)

Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....

Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …

GMN 7327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9498

1931 SEN, Ganneth; BOSE, Katrick Chandra

Rauwolfia serpentina, a new Indian drug for insanity and high blood pressure.

Introduction of reserpine in the treatment of psychoses.

GMN 4959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6306

1933 CHOPRA, Ram Nath (1882 – 1973); ET AL

The pharmacological action of an alkaloid obtained from Rauwolfia serpentina Benth. A preliminary note.

R. N. Chopra, J. C. Gupta, and B. Mukherjee demonstrated the sedative and hypotensive effect of an alkaloid isolated from Rauwolfia serpentina (reserpine).

GMN 1923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2706

1952 MÜLLER, J. M.; ET AL

Reserpin, der sedative Wirkstoff aus Rauwolfia serpentina Benth.

Isolation of reserpine. With E. Schlittler and H. J. Bein.

GMN 1931 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2750