Arthur Heffter
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Arthur Heffter (June 15, 1859 – February 8, 1925) was a German pharmacologist and chemist. He isolated mescaline from the peyote cactus in 1897, the first such isolation of a naturally occurring psychedelic substance in pure form.
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- Heffter biography at the Heffter Institute site
- Arthur Heffter (1898). "Ueber Pellote - Beiträge zur chemischen und pharmakologischen Kenntniss der Cacteen Zweite Mittheilung". Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology 40 (5-6): 385-429. doi:.
- Arthur Heffter (1896). "Ueber Cacteenalkaloïde". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft 29 (1): 216 - 227. doi:.
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