Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freud...
...interest in the drug was scientific, not sensual," you say referring to Sigmund Freud and his interest in cocaine [Jan. 6]. That is correct...
...knew my uncle well. (He was my mother's brother and he married my father's sister.) Freud's attitudes and actions have often been distorted by his detractors, the ignorant and the prejudiced. In fact, his character was impeccable, unimpeachable. He was warm, sympathetic, compassionate...
...Freud's studies of cocaine are still considered basic to modern psychopharmacology. But they did not lead to the discovery of the most effective clinical use of the drug. In an ironic twist, Freud abandoned his interest in cocaine just after he suggested that a colleague, Karl ("Coca") Roller, begin experimenting with its use in easing the pain of eye surgery. So it was Koller and not Freud who invented local anesthesia...
...time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, who injects a "seven-per-cent solution" at the opening of The Sign of the Four, was supposedly a cocaine freak. A new book appropriately titled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution even has Holmes lured to Vienna, where Freud helps him kick the habit...