Got some more done this morning. Is Novocaine addictive?
Driving back to Indiana this afternoon. I realized at about 1 am Tuesday morning that I've been deluding myself--it's not an 8 hour drive, it's really 9 hours.
Ok, got to get tons o' work done.
Posted by mike at December 17, 2003 10:16 AMThe History of Novocaine
Cocaine was widely used as a local anesthetic after Carl Koller demonstrated its effectiveness in 1884. By the end of the 1800s, however, the addictive properties of cocaine had been recognized. Doctors, realizing that they needed to develop substitutes for cocaine's active anesthetic ingredient, carefully studied the exact chemical structure of cocaine. Many of the first synthetic cocaine products that were developed were too irritating to be of any practical use.
The successful substitute was Ernest Fourneau’s stovaine, discovered in 1904. Fourneau’s product was soon followed in 1905, by procaine, the discovery of German Alfred Einhorn. Einhorn gave his substance the trade name Novocaine, from the Latin Novus (New) plus cocaine. Introduced by Heinrich Braun in 1905, novocaine soon showed that it had all the positive effects of cocaine with none of that drug’s drawbacks. Guido Fisher popularized Novocaine, or procaine, in the United States. Injected by needle, novocaine, immediately became popular as a local anesthetic for both medical and dental purposes.
Source: Travers, B.,ed., World of Scientific Discovery, Gale Research
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The History of Novocaine
Cocaine was widely used as a local anesthetic after Carl Koller demonstrated its effectiveness in 1884. By the end of the 1800s, however, the addictive properties of cocaine had been recognized. Doctors, realizing that they needed to develop substitutes for cocaine's active anesthetic ingredient, carefully studied the exact chemical structure of cocaine. Many of the first synthetic cocaine products that were developed were too irritating to be of any practical use.
The successful substitute was Ernest Fourneau’s stovaine, discovered in 1904. Fourneau’s product was soon followed in 1905, by procaine, the discovery of German Alfred Einhorn. Einhorn gave his substance the trade name Novocaine, from the Latin Novus (New) plus cocaine. Introduced by Heinrich Braun in 1905, novocaine soon showed that it had all the positive effects of cocaine with none of that drug’s drawbacks. Guido Fisher popularized Novocaine, or procaine, in the United States. Injected by needle, novocaine, immediately became popular as a local anesthetic for both medical and dental purposes.
Source: Travers, B.,ed., World of Scientific Discovery, Gale Research
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http://mycroft.net/drb/info/novocaine.htm
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What toothpaste do you use?