Analgesia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stein, Christoph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 177
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Anesthesiology.; Rheumatology.; Neurosurgery.; Surgery.; Psychology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Psychology, general.

Analgesics are among the oldest drugs described, albeit not necessarily for medicinaluse. Forexample,theSumeriansisolatedopioids(probablyfortheir euphoric effects) in the third millennium b. c. and the use of willow bark (salicin) for fever was ?rst reported in the eighteenth century. Both types of...