Samuel Guthrie

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Samuel Guthrie (born 1782 in Brimfield, Hampden County , Massachusetts , † October 19, 1848 in Sackets Harbor , New York ) was an American doctor, chemist and inventor.

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Samuel Guthrie (junior) had studied medicine for a while with his father of the same name, who had become a doctor. He then attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City in 1810 and 1811 and at the University of Pennsylvania in 1815 , where he graduated as a medical doctor ( MD ). He then moved to Shenburne (New York) and in 1817 to Sackets Harbor. As a farmer, country doctor and inventor, he worked in Sackets Harbor, where he lived until the end of his life, including practical chemistry. In 1830 he developed a process for quickly converting potato starch into sugar.

Guthrie succeeded in trying a low-cost method for producing chlorine ether ( chloric ether , 1,2-dichloroethane ) to develop in 1831 the production of what he initially spirituous solution of chloric ether mentioned chloroform - regardless of Justus von Liebig and Eugène Soubeiran . It was first used for amputations in Sackets Harbor.

He reported this and other chemical substances he discovered to Benjamin Silliman , professor at Yale University, in letters published in Silliman's American Journal of Science and Arts .

Around 18 years after Egg, he also invented a primer cap .

publication

  • Samuel Guthrie, MD: New mode of preparing a spirituous solution of choric ethern. In: American Journal of Science and Arts. Volume 21, 1831, p. 64 f .; also published in: Albert Faulconer, Thomas Edward Keys: Samuel Guthrie. In: Foundations of Anesthesiology. 2 volumes, Charles C Thomas, Springfield (Illinois) 1965, Volume 1, pp. 444-446.

literature

  • Henry M. Lyman: Memoirs of Dr. Samuel Guthrie and the History of the Discovery of Chloroform
  • Albert Faulconer, Thomas Edward Keys: Samuel Guthrie. In: Foundations of Anesthesiology. 2 volumes. Charles C Thomas, Springfield IL 1965, Volume 1, pp. 442 and 444-446.
  • Guthrie, Samuel . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 3 : Grinnell - Lockwood . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 15 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Martini: The Renaissance of Science. The Story of the Atom and Chemistry. Abbott Communication Group, Maitland 2014, ISBN 978-0-692-21362-9 , p. 569.
  2. ↑ Samuel Guthrie . NNDB.com, accessed April 12, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Guthrie, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and medical professional
DATE OF BIRTH 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Brimfield, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1848
Place of death Sackets Harbor