Narcotic analgesics.

Autor: Buchanan WW; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8P 1H6, Canada., Rainsford KD; Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK., Kean CA; Haldimand War Memorial Hospital, 400 Broad Street, Dunnville, ON, N1A 2P7, Canada., Kean WF; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8P 1H6, Canada. wfkean@gmail.com.; Haldimand War Memorial Hospital, 400 Broad Street, Dunnville, ON, N1A 2P7, Canada. wfkean@gmail.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Inflammopharmacology [Inflammopharmacology] 2024 Feb; Vol. 32 (1), pp. 23-28. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 29.
DOI: 10.1007/s10787-023-01304-y
Abstrakt: There is documentation of the use of opium derived products in the ancient history of the Assyrians: the Egyptians; in the sixth century AD by the Roman Dioscorides; and by Avicenna (980-1037). Reference to opium like products is made by Paracelsus and by Shakespeare. Charles Louis Derosne and Fredrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner isolated morphine from raw opium in 1802 and 1806 respectively, and it was Sertürner who named the substance morphine, after Morpheus, the Greek God of dreams. By the middle 1800s, Opium and related opioid derived products were the source of a major addiction in USA, and to some extent in the United Kingdom. Opioid products are of major therapeutic value in the treatment of pain from injury, post surgery, intractable pain conditions, and some forms of terminal cancer.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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