Naming: Heroin



Did you know that heroin was a name registered by Friedrich Bayer & Co. for their morphine substitute in 1898?

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2 Responses to Naming: Heroin

diana spunea...

actually yes ! i remember reading about this and other realted issues and now you got me really wondering, cause i cannot damn remember where i found the info. Such nice observation anyway :). Just like the Chupa-Chups logo being designed by Dali...

Claudiu spunea...

intriguing anyway. there loads of other things that cjanged their initial meaning. well, i think it's because language is alive and what counts is the way different people use it.

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