- Arthur Heffter
Arthur Heffter (born Karl Wilhelm Arthur Heffter
June 15 ,1859 –February 8 ,1925 )cite web |url=http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/heffter_arthur/heffter_arthur.shtml |title=Erowid Arthur Heffter Vault |format= |work= |accessdate=] was a German pharmacologist and chemist. He isolatedmescaline from thepeyote cactus in 1897, the first such isolation of a naturally occurringpsychedelic substance in pure form.References
External links
* [http://www.heffter.org/pages/arthur.html Heffter biography at the Heffter Institute site]
* [http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/heffter_arthur/heffter_arthur.shtml Erowid: Aurthur Heffter]
*cite journal
title = Ueber Pellote - Beiträge zur chemischen und pharmakologischen Kenntniss der Cacteen Zweite Mittheilung
author = Arthur Heffter
journal = Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology
volume = 40
issue = 5-6
pages = 385–429
year =1898
url =
doi =10.1007/BF01825267
*cite journal
title = Ueber Cacteenalkaloïde
author = Arthur Heffter
journal = Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft
volume = 29
issue = 1
pages = 216–227
year = 1896
url =
doi = 10.1002/cber.18960290145
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