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4 unusual facts about morphine


Emergency medical services in Germany

Usually only the physician will carry a small amount of Morphine, Fentanyl or Piritramide and closely guard them.

Mobile 3D Graphics API

:M3G redirects here, for the morphine metabolite see Morphine-3-glucuronide

Russ Gershon

Founder of independent record label Accurate Records, which put out titles by Morphine, Medeski Martin & Wood, the Alloy Orchestra, the Either/Orchestra, Dominique Eade, Garrison Fewell and many others.

Three Day Threshold

In March 2007, Hi-n-Dry, a record label run by former members of Morphine, signed Three Day Threshold to release their 3rd full length album, Against the Grain.


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It was proposed by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in an editorial accompanying a paper by Friedrich Sertürner describing the isolation of the alkaloid "morphium", which was subsequently renamed to "morphine".

Andrew Johnson Building

At some point during the night, Williams grew ill and began convulsing, and a doctor called to the hotel gave Williams injections of Vitamin B12 and morphine.

Beta-endorphin

It is an agonist of the opioid receptors, with evidence suggesting it serves as the endogenous ligand of the μ-opioid receptor, the same receptor to which the chemicals extracted from opium, such as morphine, have their analgesic and addictive effects (indeed, the μ-opioid receptor was named based on its most renowned ligand, morphine).

Bill Morrissey

Come Running features guitar work by Dave Alvin and the remaining members of Morphine, Billy Conway and Dana Colley.

Bolvadin

Opium was grown in the area and is still grown today; there is a factory here producing morphine for the pharmaceutical industry.

Contaminated currency

In a study reported in Forensic Science International, A.J. Jenkins, at the Office of the Cuyahoga County Coroner (Cleveland, OH), the author reports the analysis of ten randomly collected one-dollar bills from five cities, and tested for cocaine, heroin, 6-acetylmorphine (also called "6-AM"), morphine, codeine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and phencyclidine (PCP).

Cyanotic heart defect

Morphine during Tet spells to decrease associated infundibular spasm.

Donald Harvey

Harvey is also notable for having used numerous methods to kill, such as arsenic; cyanide; insulin; suffocation; miscellaneous poisons; morphine; turning off ventilators; administration of fluid tainted with hepatitis B and/or HIV (which resulted in a hepatitis infection, but no HIV infection, and illness rather than death); insertion of a coat hanger into a catheter, causing an abdominal puncture and subsequent peritonitis.

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye

He died in 1841 of an accidental morphine overdose; Helen continued to spend her summers at his family estate at Clandeboye in Ireland, which now belonged to Frederick.

Henry Raymond Ringness

Although completely paralyzed in the lower half of his body and suffering great pain because of his immobility, he persisted in administering morphine and blood plasma to wounded personnel until he was finally evacuated to a base hospital.

Henry Stephen Fox

He stayed on in Washington, where he died from a morphine overdose in 1846 and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery, passing his botanical collection to his nephew Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury.

Hi-n-Dry

Founded by Morphine singer and bassist Mark Sandman, the studio and label are currently managed by former Morphine bandmates Dana Colley and Billy Conway along with Laurie Sargent and Andrew Mazzone.

In a Bar, Under the Sea

The album was produced by Eric Drew Feldman (who was keyboard and bass player for Captain Beefheart in the late seventies and early eighties) and welcomes guests such as Scott McCloud from Girls Against Boys (on Fell Off the Floor, Man), Dana Colley from Morphine (on Supermarketsong) and Bart Maris from X-Legged Sally (on Nine Threads).

Isabelle Eberhardt

Isabelle Eberhardt is mentioned in Jolie Holland's song "Old Fashioned Morphine", which is on her second album, Escondida.

Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

Kinzie died while vacationing in Amagansett, New York, Long Island, in 1870, after a druggist accidentally substituted morphine for the quinine she ordered.

La Crescenta-Montrose, California

Bela Lugosi attempted to overcome his morphine addiction at the Kimball, as represented in the Tim Burton film "Ed Wood." Actress Frances Farmer, misdiagnosed as a "paranoid schizophrenic," received insulin shock therapy at Kimball.

Natalie D-Napoleon

In the live arena, D-Napoleon has shared billings with the likes of Morphine, Ken Stringfellow, Jack Frost (featuring Steve Kilbey and Grant McLennan), The Stems, John Butler, Ash Grunwald, Dan Kelly, Whitley, Nic Dalton, Todd Snider, John Doe, Mark Olson, Victoria Williams and Vic Chesnutt.

Ondansetron

The original experiment used mice who were injected with increasing doses of morphine, assayed with naloxone and then underwent haplotypic analysis to isolate a gene candidate.

Pin prick attack

Although fanciful tales of so-called "needle men" or white slavers, who supposedly injected unsuspecting young girls with morphine then carrying them away into a life of prostitution, had been around since the 1930s, the legend probably has its roots in a 1989 incident where ten teenage girls were arrested and later charged with stabbing numerous women with pins in the Upper West Side area of New York.

Quercitannic acid

In 1838, Jöns Jacob Berzelius wrote that quercitannate is used to dissolve morphine.

Saegusa–Ito oxidation

The synthesis of morphine by Tohru Fukuyama in 2006 is one such example, in which the transformation tolerates the presence of carbamate and ether substituents.

Spanking the Monkey

Select tracks from Morphine's album Cure for Pain are used throughout the film, including "In Spite of Me" which plays over the end credits.

Sunrise with Sea Monsters

A paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine draws a connection between these figures and Turner's possession of acetate of morphia (a drug related to morphine), possibly used for the treatment of a toothache.

Sybille Schmitz

At the time of her death, Sybille had been living in Munich with a woman named Ursula Moritz, a physician who allegedly sold her morphine at an inflated rate and kept Sybille doped up while squandering the little funds she had available to her.

The Gravel Pit

They played hundreds of dates, opened for acts as diverse as Graham Parker, Cheap Trick, Gang of Four and Morphine, and released three more records on Q,: 1997's full-length No One Here Gets In For Free -- Rare and Unreleased 1989 - 1997;the 1998 hit single "Favorite," produced by Denneen; and 1999's full-length Silver Gorilla, also with Denneen, which amassed critical raves across the country, from Raygun to Entertainment Weekly.

The Red Kimona

This is the third of Davenport's "social conscience" releases, preceded by Human Wreckage (1923) on the topic of drug addiction (released five months after Wallace Reid's death from morphine), and Broken Laws (1924) about excessive mother-love.

Toxication

Codeine is an example of a prodrug, which is metabolized in the body to the opiate known as morphine.

Wild West Tech

Another explains that Morphine was first isolated in 1803 by the German pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, but it was not until the development of the hypodermic needle (1853) that its use spread and it spread quite a bit in the American West.

William J. Mann

Forthcoming work includes Tinseltown: Madness, Morphine and Murder at the Dawn of the Movies, due in 2014 from HarperCollins, the story of how the Hollywood studio system and the Hays Office were established during the early 1920s, told alongside the famous, unsolved murder mystery of director William Desmond Taylor, which Mann promises to solve.


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