Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist and academic (died 1929)

Louis Lewin

German pharmacologist

Louis Lewin was a German pharmacologist. In 1887 he received his first sample of the Peyote cactus from Dallas, Texas-based physician John Raleigh Briggs (1851-1907), and later published the first methodical analysis of it, causing a variant to be named Anhalonium lewinii in his…