Morpheus
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Morpheus is a god associated with sleep and dreams. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, he is the son of Somnus and appears in dreams in human form. From the Middle Ages, the name began to stand more generally f
Morpheus, Jean-Bernard Restout (c. 1771)
Aurora wakes Morpheus by Bartolomeo Altomonte (1769)
Morpheus and Iris, by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1811 Hermitage Museum
Morpheus awakening as Iris draws near by René-Antoine Houasse (1690)
Friedrich Sertürner
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Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner was a German pharmacist and a pioneer of alkaloid chemistry. He is best known for his discovery of morphine, which he isolated from opium in 1804, and for conducting t
