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To: zurdo who wrote (4392)	7/16/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 9523

Viagra was invented by British scientist with five children The Times of London July 16 1998 [thanks zurdo, for the tip] BY IAN MURRAY, MARK HENDERSON AND JOANNA BALE THE father of the virility drug Viagra is a British scientist working at a laboratory in Sandwich, Kent. Nicholas Terrett, a father of five, is named in documents released by the Patent Office yesterday as the man who, in 1991, discovered that a mixture of sildenafil citrate - Viagra's active ingredient - was useful in treating heart conditions. Last night Dr Terrett, 40, confirmed that he and Peter Ellis had developed Viagra as an impotence treatment, but said that Pfizer company regulations forbade him from speaking further. His wife Sheila said at the family home near Wingham: "It has been interesting to see the coverage, but a shame that so much of it has been so sensational." Although Pfizer stands to make millions from the drug, Dr Terrett is unlikely to receive an extra bonus. He lives in a modest semi-detached converted oast house with a G-registration Rover 216 GSi and a P-registration Vauxhall People Carrier on the drive. His three daughters and two sons, aged from four to eleven, are all at state schools. One neighbour described how the Terretts helped out with scout and brownie groups and parents' organisations and said: "They are a lovely family and Dr Terrett deserves all the success in the world. We haven't heard if he is making a lot of money from all this, but with five children we are wondering if he has been using Viagra himself to demonstrate its effectiveness." Three years after his initial finding, Dr Terrett and Dr Ellis, another colleague at Pfizer's laboratory in Sandwich, headed the teams that found that the drugs were effective in the treatment of impotence. According to a third patent application, Peter Dunn and Alfred Wood, two chemists, created the process by which the chemicals are put together to make the pills. The patents, which also name Andrew Bell and David Brown, are needed to protect the drug which has broken all sales records since it was licensed for use in America in March. According to Pfizer, hundreds worked on the development; the department leaders were put forward on the patent application "because we couldn't fit all the names of the inventors on the form". Viagra is expected to be licensed in Britain in September and, if demand matches that in America, up to two million men could request it. sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html?2383892