Name: This Substance Was Once Used as an Anesthetic #Shorts
Uploaded: 2022-01-23T17:46:33.000Z
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Did you know that cocaine has a long history  of being used therapeutically in medicine?   

ophthalmologist Carl Koller recognized that there was  a lack of    

good anesthetic options for his eye surgery patients.

He was inspired by his mentor Sigmund Freud’s  obsession with cocaine,

locally and…ta-da! This drug does temporarily  blocks nerve signals from the affected area,  

which made it the ideal turn of the century  surgery breakthrough. We now use other, safer  

anesthetics for routine procedures, but if you  want to learn more about how cocaine was used this  

year, in 2022, for a groundbreaking new procedure,  subscribe to Seeker and check out the full episode.