2022年 大学课件第四节.pptVIP

第四节 局部麻醉 Inca priests chewed the dried leaves of a plant, Erythroxylon coca , as a stimulant and used it as an integral part of religious ceremonies. Cultivation and use of the coca leaves by the Andean Indians date back thousands of years. Coca is an indigenous Indian (Aymaran) word meaning food for the traveler. The first written account of the coca plant being used as a local anesthetic was by the Spanish Jesuit Bernabe Cobo (1582–1657), who chewed the plant to relieve a toothache and wrote about it in 1544. Albert Niemann (1834–1861) of G?ttingen, Germany, who isolated the alkaloid from t