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IN his interesting article on Wöhler's work on urea1, Dr. Douglas McKie states that words spoken by W. v. Hofmann in 1882 in his obituary of Wöhler have given rise to a legend that Wöhler synthetized urea, thereby sounding the death-knell of the hypothesis of vitalism. I do not think any such legend exists.
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Nature, 153, 608 (1944).
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BARTHOLDY, P. Wöhler's Work on Urea. Nature 154, 150–151 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154150b0
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