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The Victorians' obsession with cocaine: How discovery of 'wonder' drug's numbing effect in EYE operations triggered explosion in popularity

When its anaesthetic properties were demonstrated in 1884, one US neurologist breathlessly hailed a discovery 'almost as wonderful and important' as electricity.


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