Halsted realizes that cocaine may be a great local anesthetic, the solution to a terrible problem in the early days of surgery, and he, together with his students and fellow physicians, begins to experiment with cocaine.
Halsted realizes that cocaine may be a great local anesthetic, the solution to a terrible problem in the early days of surgery. Having learned the scientific method when he was in Europe, Halsted, together with his students and fellow physicians, begins to experiment with cocaine.