#anesthetic

Dr Nixon said they're adding them to all injectables like those in cosmetics (like botox etc) and most likely to all local anesthetics. 🤔

And if you are scared, you know how to call me

Hotel de Ville, Paris

This medieval manuscript illumination shows a pair of mandrake roots depicted as humanoid figures with leaves sprouting from their heads - because when your taproot naturally forks into something vaguely person-shaped, medieval people assumed you were basically a tiny earth demon. According to folklore, pulling up a mandrake root would cause it to scream and kill anyone who heard it, so people tied the roots to dogs and made the animals pull them from the soil, sacrificing the dog to harvest the plant. This is either brilliant problem-solving or proof that medieval humans had a deeply twisted relationship with both botany and pets. The first-century Greek physician Dioscorides was among the first to document mandrake as an anesthetic for surgery, and it remained Europe's primary anesthetic until ether was discovered in the 19th century. The plant contains hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids that make it genuinely medicinal in small doses and genuinely deadly in large ones, which means medieval physicians had to know the exact threshold between "you're asleep for surgery" and "you're just asleep forever." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake

Singing before going under anesthesia