Local anaesthesia-early nerve blocks

From: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

"No modern remedy has been received by the profession with such general enthusiasm, none has become so rapidly popular, and scarcely anyone has shown so extensive a field of useful application as cocaine, the local anesthetic recently introduced by Dr C. Koller of Vienna." So began Cocaine and its use in ophthalmic and general surgery, a collection of papers on cocaine presented by Hermann Knapp in 1885. Knapp embraced the new drug enthusiastically and, in keeping with the times, was quick to carry out experiments on himself and his family prior to using it on patients. "My urethra is very ...

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