Alkaloid use of Ephedra and opium poppies. Also, coca leaves have been used by South American Indians since ancient times. Extracts from plants containing toxic alkaloids, such as aconitine and tubocurarine, were used since antiquity for poisoning arrows. Studies of alkaloids began in the 19th century. In 1804, the German chemist Friedrich Sertürner isolated from opium a "soporific principle" (), which he called "morphium" in honor of Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams; in German and some other Central-European languages, this is still the name of the drug. The term "morphine", used in English and French, was given by the French
Name of Greece it lasted almost 1000 years longer than the Western Roman Empire, Persians, Arabs, and Turks, all in the East, used and sometimes still use terms from "Rhomania" or "Rome", such as "Rûm", to refer to its land or people. The first major form of names derives from the Latin "Graecus" and "Graecia" or their equivalent forms in Greek whence the former derive themselves. These terms have fallen out of use in Greek. The second major form, used in many languages and in which the common root is "yun" or "ywn", is borrowed from the Greek name "Ionia", the Ionian tribe