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454: No Such Thing As A Midsummer Night's Bream

No Such Thing As A Fish

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What Is the Best Anaesthetic?

A Chinese physician called Huatuo used cannabis boil pounder to anesthetise patients. It's speculated that it dissolves some of the fat in your brain cells, so it stops the cells' activity. Another ancient way of anesthetizing people was electric rays. These were like torpedo fish and could give you a real electric shock. But we still don't know how they work.

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