Proof The Bible Is True

By Dr. Mercola

You may not know or recognize his name, but Austrian Friedrich Serturner was a pharmacist’s assistant who, through 14 years of research and testing, isolated the purest form of the alkaloid base compound morphine from opium poppies.¹ He found the opium with the alkaloid removed was not effective on animals, but the alkaloid was 10 times more powerful than the processed opium.²

After spending years testing on himself, he died chronically depressed and addicted to morphine.³ By the mid-1820s morphine was used across Western Europe, provided by several sources, including a new chemical company started by Heinrich Merck.^{<span …read more}

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