Cloves were about as close as you could get before that.
We didn’t have any kind of local anesthesia until they figured out cocaine could do this near the end of the 1800s.
Routhinator@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
We didn’t have any kind of local anesthesia until they figured out cocaine could do this near the end of the 1800s.
Cloves were about as close as you could get before that.
Medicinal plants to manage pain have been used since the dawn of time. Western medecine took a while to care about how patients feel though.