first edition
1903 · Berlin & Vienna:
by FISCHER, Herman Emil (1852-1919) ; Joseph von MERING (1849-1908).
Berlin & Vienna:: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1903., 1903. 4to. (265 x 177 mm) pp. [97]-144. Modern black cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine title. Bookplate of Andras Gedeon. Fine. FIRST PRINTING of the discovery of diethyl barbituric acid. Fischer received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902. "Berlin chemist Emil Fischer and Joseph von Mering synthesized diethyl barbituric acid or barbitone (Veronal) in 1902. They described their discovery in "Ueber eine neue Klasse von Schlafmitteln", Therapie Gegenwart 44:97-101, 1903. The parent compound, barbituric acid, was first synthesised by Adolf von Baeyer in 1864, but barbituric acid is not itself pharmacologically (truncated)