Anesthetics have been used for thousands of years. In fact, the first report on drug use was still in the pre-history era, an era of human history prior written text.
First use of anesthetics herbal
In the pre-history, anesthetics were natural herbs. Opium poppy is known to have been harvested to 4200 BC, and these plants were first cultivated in the Sumerian empire. The first known use of anesthetics in the preparations of opium was in 1500 BC and 1100 BC, civilizations, Cyprus and elsewhere in the farming and harvesting the plants were. Read the rest of this entry »