UEBER PELLOTE. Ein Beitrage zur Chemischen und Phramakologischen Kenntniss der Cacteen. Zweite Mitteilung

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Archive Ex. Path. Phramak, volumes 34 & 40, 1894 - , 1898.. 2 vols, vol. 34 (1894), pp.65-86, with 1 text illus. & 1 color plate displaying 3 peyote buttons; together with vol. 40 (1898), Euber Pellote... Zweite Mittheilung, pp.385-430 Contemp. pebbled cloth & marbled boards with stamps on flyleaf of SANDOZ (the pharmaceutical company for which Albert Hofmann worked when he isolated LSD).. First appearance of the author's 1894 description of peyote, together with his epoch 1898 paper on the isolation of mescaline, the key psychedelic alkaloid of peyote. 'These investigations are to be considered as the first scientific studies in the field of of psychomimetics' (Hofmann, Bulletin on Narcotics Vol. .23, No. 1, p.3). Arthur Heffter (1859-1925), German pharmacologist, vied for priority with Louis Lewin in peyote research. He proceeded systematically to find the psycho-active principle by working peyote up into chemical fractions and testing these on himself in 'heroic self-experiments, much the same way that Albert Hofmann later did with psyilocybine' (Holmstedt). G-M 1890.1: 'Isolation of mescaline, the active agent in peyote. One of the first scientific investigations of a psychedelic drug.' Holmstedt, 'Historical Survey' in ESPD, p.22. Phantastica 91. Conceivably Albert Hofmann may have worked with these Sandoz file copies while investigating ergot which led to his discovery of lysergic acid.

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