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- [[Sigmund Freud]] was a big [[cocaine]] user at points through his life. He liked to use it before lectures... he also liked to write letters to his fiance about it
“I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. In my last serious depression I took cocaine again and a small dose lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion. I am just now collecting the literature for a song of praise to this magical substance.”
- [[Sigmund Freud]] was a big [[cocaine]] user at points through his life. He liked to use it before lectures... he also liked to write letters to his fiance about it
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- [[Karl Koller]], a colleague of [[Sigmund Freud]] was the first surgeon to use [[cocaine]] as a local anaesthetic, which was a breakthrough discovery of the time
- [[Karl Koller]] gave the first successful eye surgery in 1884, at age 25
- this is why many other anaestheics end with "caine"
- before this, all you could do was just get really drunk and scream in pain during surgery
- [[Karl Koller]], a colleague of [[Sigmund Freud]] was the first surgeon to use [[cocaine]] as a local anaesthetic, which was a breakthrough discovery of the time
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