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Throughout history, needing the help of a surgeon was almost a death sentence because if one did not die on the operating table, one would feel the excruciating agony brought from the heavy crude chop of the surgical blade. Because of this continuous trauma, humanity has searched the world to find the most effective numbing elixirs. The search for the perfect numbing agent was pursued for thousands of years. Some of the earliest records reveal ailments and elixirs from Sumer, ancient Babylon, Assyria, Dynastic Egypt, India, and China. However, the ancient secrets for anesthesia were not as effective as modern methods today. The journey of how the west now uses anesthesia is just as interesting as how it works. It