I'd like to buy the world some coke

Don't ask me why I'm up at 12:30 on a school night, but I was reading about Freud's experimentation with cocaine as a cure-all, and I came across this irreverent little article that highlighted some of the more fascinating experiments Freud conducted with the drug.

Among them was a nose operation that he and another scientist performed on each other. They used a cocaine solution beforehand as a local anaesthetic and then again afterwards as well to "dull the pain of surgery." Unsurprisingly, he was very pleased with the results. His notes:

"I put a noticeable end to the last horrible attack [by taking some more] cocaine; since then things have been fine and a great amount of pus is coming out... Since the last cocainisation three circumstances have continued to coincide: 1. I feel well; 2. I am discharging ample amounts of pus; 3. I am feeling very well..."



My man's just trying to keep it together.