Heroin

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Heroin was discovered at St Mary's Hospital, London, in 1874(1). It was discovered by C.R. Alder Wright(2).

At first researchers felt that Heroin (Diamorphine) didn't have any significant advantage over Morphine. It wasn't used as a medicine until a German company Bayer, marketed it as heroin in 1898(3).

It was named Heroin after the German word for "heroic"(4). It was marketed as a new cough medicine(5).