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Cocaine

An alkaloid from coca leaves isolated in the mid-19th century, it was the first local anaesthetic: in 1884 ophthalmologist Carl Koller demonstrated its use in eye surgery. Today its medical role is limited, as a topical anaesthetic of the nasal mucosa for diagnostic and surgical procedures. This family brings together the active ingredient.

Did you know?Before Koller, eye operations were hampered by the patient's involuntary reflexes; Sigmund Freud, his colleague in Vienna, nicknamed him 'Coca Koller'.

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