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Probably a detail previously considered too minor for foreign consumption. Imperial Japan also made use of meths, called "ヒロポン" at the time.
by anabis 10y ago
Probably a detail previously considered too minor for foreign consumption.
Imperial Japan also made use of meths, called "ヒロポン" at the time.
- schoen 10y agoThe linked article says that German scientists "pinched" methamphetamine from Japan; does that mean it was originally invented there? Wikipedia says it was "first synthesized in 1887 in Germany" by a Romanian scientist and then "in 1893 by Japanese chemist Nagai Nagayoshi". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine#History.2C_society.2C_and_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine#History.2C_soc... Maybe the Germans learned the synthesis that they ended up using from Japanese research, despite being familiar with the substance before?
- gozur88 10y agoIt says the Germans synthesized amphetamine, while Nagayoshi synthesized methamphetamine. There's a separate wiki page for "history and culture of substituted amphetamines" that gives a bit more detail than the main article, though not on this particular point.
- schoen 10y agoOh, thanks! I missed that.