what if EpiPen is short for Epstein Pen, and Epinephrine was just given that name as a cover
or maybe thats just how Epstein got his name.
"Oliver and Schafer's next move was to challenge the adrenal extract with whatever they could find—including heat, acid, and peptic digestion—to determine the physical and biochemical properties of this substance. Their work provided the perfect base for John Jacob Abel, an American biochemist and pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Abel's research culminated in the purification of the extract's active ingredient, epinephrine, in 1899. Somewhat frustratingly for Abel, the purity of his isolated epinephrine was challenged by Otto von Furth, an Austrian physician, physiologist and biochemist, and by Jokichi Takamine, a Japanese biochemist. Takamine, driven by the widely recognised “marvellous therapeutic value of the suprarenal extract”, successfully isolated the “pure, stable, crystalline form” of epinephrine, which he named adrenalin. The final empirical formula of C9H13NO3 was soon determined by Aldrich in 1901, and the purified product was quickly patented by Parke-Davis & Company."
hmmm. johns hopkins..
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(15)00087-9/fulltext
I'd be real insterested to know where he got his extracts. they would have had to be pretty fresh wouldnt they? I know medical research has had a pretty dicey history, inmates and mental health patients commonly being subjected to some horrible stuff in the name of medicine.