Samuel Guthrie
Samuel Guthrie (born 1782 in Brimfield, Hampden County , Massachusetts , † October 19, 1848 in Sackets Harbor , New York ) was an American doctor, chemist and inventor.
Live and act
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
- Dr. Samuel Guthrie House. Hounsfield Homesteads
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Samuel Guthrie . NNDB.com, accessed April 12, 2013.
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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 |