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Scientists and Doctors on Drugs
Posted on May 20, 2008
Many modern anesthetics and pain killers were developed from experiments that scientists conducted on themselves, often getting addicted in the process. There was the chemist Humphry Davy,who discovered laughing gas in the early 1800's, enjoyed it with the poets Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge, but got so addicted that he never did anything with his discovery. Then there was dentist Horace Wells, who used the gas successfully to sedate his patients, but soon discovered chloroform, which he preferred, and sniffed his way into desperate addiction. Cocaine came on the scene after surg...
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