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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually, someone synthesized something very similar in 1897 and named it "epinephrine". 4 years later, someone independently synthesized it and trademarked it as "adrenaline".

The terminology is now one of the few differences between the INN and BAN systems of names.[72] Although European health professionals and scientists preferentially use the term "adrenaline", the converse is true among American health professionals and scientists. Nevertheless, even among the latter, receptors for this substance are called "adrenergic receptors" or "adrenoceptors", and pharmaceuticals that mimic its effects are often called "adrenergics". The history of adrenaline and epinephrine is reviewed by Rao.[73]

[–] anubis119@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Seems like a couple people were working on this around the same time.

Extracts of the adrenal gland were first obtained by Polish physiologist Napoleon Cybulski in 1895.[94] These extracts, which he called nadnerczyna ("adrenalin"), contained adrenaline and other catecholamines.[95] American ophthalmologist William H. Bates discovered adrenaline's usage for eye surgeries prior to 20 April 1896.[96] In 1897, John Jacob Abel (1857–1938), the father of modern pharmacology, found a natural substance produced by the adrenal glands that he named epinephrine.