[DOC] [TLE] Anesthetics - used, first, anesthetic, blood, body, plant, uses, history ... [PAR] Early Chinese practitioners used acupuncture (the insertion of thin, solid needles 
... the use of wine made from mandragora (a plant known as mandrake) to 
produce a ... Dioscorides used the Greek word "anesthesia" to describe this sleep
. ... This type of anesthetic involved a sponge soaked in a dissolved solution of 
opium,... [DOC] [TLE] History of general anesthesia - Wikipedia [PAR] Attempts at producing a state of general anesthesia can be traced throughout 
recorded history in the writings of the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, 
Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Indians, and Chinese. .... You can help by adding to 
it. .... Opium made its way from Asia Minor to all parts of Europe between the 10th
... [DOC] [TLE] Solanaceae: Mandrake - US Forest Service [PAR] Types of Fens  Rich Fens, Poor Fens  How Old are Fens? ... Mandrake's 
legendary history and mythology is found among middle-eastern ... B.C. 
References to mandrake are also found in early Mesopotamian, Greek, Old ... Did 
You Know? ... the early use of mandrake as an anesthetic used to numb and 
sedate patients. [DOC] [TLE] The Deadliest Poisons in History (And Why People Stopped Using ... [PAR] Sep 13, 2012 ... However, there are only so many times you can use the same trick. ... Hemlock 
and aconite were a great favorite of the Greeks and the Romans. ... This type of 
mandrake flowers and bears edible fruit. ... Agatha Christie made this poison 
famous in her first murder mystery, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. [DOC] [TLE] Dwale: an anaesthetic from old England [PAR] Dec 18, 1999 ... Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University ... It was 
the official poison of ancient Greece, and no better account exists of ... Mandrake 
owed its popularity, down the ages, to the resemblance of its root to ... the chief 
alkaloids in opium and henbane, respectively, did so early this... [DOC] [TLE] scbk02-01 - Dadazi.net [PAR] Anesthesia created safe surgery and made many medical and dental oper ... 
While it is probable that new drugs and new types of anesthesia will be ... The 
word anesthesia, from the Greek words meaning lack of sensation, ... Ancient 
Romans and Egyptians used mandrake (the root of the mandragora ... DO YOU 
KNOW: [DOC] [TLE] A Modern Herbal | Mandrake - Botanical.com [PAR] The name Mandragora is derived from two Greek words implying 'hurtful to cattle. 
... A tincture is used in homoeopathy to-day, made from the fresh plant. ... and old 
wives tales you shall from henceforth cast out your bookes of memorie.' ... From 
the earliest times a notion prevailed in the East that the Mandrake will remove... [DOC] [TLE] Types of Herbs and Healing Properties - Information and History ... [PAR] The English version of this plant, called Manroot (mandrake,) was believed to be 
.... of use among Native Americans that and were adapted by early European 
colonists. ... herb by the Greeks and Romans and the Greeks also used it in 
making wine. ... Because it has a calming and numbing effect, it has been used to 
treat... [DOC] [TLE] The Mandragora of the Ancients in Folk-Lore and Medicine - JStor [PAR] many of the Greek and Latin authors have made more or less copious .... The 
earliest account, then, of the digging of mandragora shows the ceremony ..... your 
hands, straightway you shall arouse the voice of a new-born child, crying for milk 
on ..... ciated with superstitions of one sort or another in antiquity, and they seem 
to. [DOC] [TLE] The History of Pain Relief and Anaesthesia | Issues Magazine [PAR] The Greeks and Romans primarily used alcohol. Africans induced numbing 
trances and drank or smoke potent mind-altering ... seed, mandrake, ivy and a 
touch of hemlock (the poison that killed Socrates). ... Speed, however, never 
made up for the fact that it was infections that usually killed so many early surgery 
patients.

Question: To numb you, the Greeks made an early type of this from mandrake
Answer: anesthetic