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Burnett's "Cocaine" for dandruff
Linda Y Tang1, Theodore A Alston2
1Duke University Trinity College, 101 Wannamaker Drive, Durham, NC 27708.
Journal of Anesthesia History
|September 14, 2020
Summary
Joseph Burnett
Area of Science:
- History of Medicine
- Pharmaceutical History
- Chemical Industry History
Background:
- Joseph Burnett supplied diethyl ether for the first public demonstration of inhaled surgical anesthesia in 1846.
- Burnett later developed a hair product, Cocoaine, containing cocoa-nut oil.
- Cocoaine was sometimes marketed as Burnett's Cocaine, potentially capitalizing on the popularity of coca-based products.
