![]() ![]() After some introductory remarks, he outlines pharmacological tolerance. His most important works were Gifte und Vergiftungen-Lehrbuch der Toxikologie ( Poisons and Poisoning-a Textbook of Toxicology, 1885), and Die Nebenwirkungen der Arzneimittel (1871), a compendium of information about the adverse effects of drugs, which preceded by 70 years the first edition of Leopold Meyler's similar, and now standard, work, Side Effects of Drugs.īut Lewin's most accessible book is Phantastica, in which he describes a wide range of what we nowadays call recreational drugs. Lewin eventually became a full professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität in Berlin, although for various reasons (mostly the usual ones) recognition took a long time coming. And he left a legacy of almost 300 journal publications and several monographs on toxicological, forensic, ethnographic, pharmacological, and historical topics. ![]() He spent a lifetime studying morphine and cocaine, mescaline from Anhalonium Lewinii (the peyote plant, named after him by Hennings), the harmala alkaloids, Piper methysticum (kava kava), and Chavica betel. Louis Lewin (pronounced Leveen), whom some have called the father of toxicology, died in December 1929, aged 79. ![]()
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