Mindbending experiments: how drugs shaped modern science
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The Attitudes of the Establishment to Drug Experiments
Scientists in the 19th century experimented very widely, it was also passing enormous electric currents through your body. It wasn't just taking drugs, people sort of severing their nerves to see how long it would take them to grow back. And then the actual great moment of the discovery of anesthesia by William Morton,. who was a Pennsylvania dentist, involved in taking ether and passing out after having etherized a dog.
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