Louis Lewin Life story


Louis Lewin was a German pharmacologist. In 1887 he received his first sample of the Peyote cactus from Dallas, Texas-based physician John Raleigh Briggs, and later published the first methodical analysis of it, causing a variant to be named Anhalonium lewinii in his honor. Lewin was born in Tuchel, West Prussia.

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