Not every doctor was entirely clueless without modern medicine, though. Some were surprisingly spot-on, even if they lived hundreds of years ago. For example, pharmaceutical companies weren’t the first ones to discover how useful opiates can be.
According to a study published in Neurology Journals, people have been using the power of poppies to alleviate pain for hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of years. And while we know today that opioids can be extremely dangerous, even a doctor will tell you that they can be amazing at relieving pain.
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