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1950s

See how Thorazine, one of the first antipsychotics, was a hot new drug in the ’50s

In the ’50s, doctors started testing Thorzaine on patients – a drug capable of powerful, sweeping effects on the emotions, used for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

St Elsewhere has a long and healthy run (1982-1988)

1980s

St Elsewhere has a long and healthy run – Plus see the opening credits (1982-1988)

For six years, the NBC series St Elsewhere literally set the standard for network programming, offering a consistently high level of realistic writing, ensemble acting, narrative experimentation and outrageous humor.

1930s

How cats helped create the first iron lung machines for polio victims (1938)

Every year, hundreds of children were stricken with polio. Before testing iron lung machines on humans, two dozen cats had to die under anesthetic.

How easy and relaxing spinal anesthesia would make the patient in 1902

1900s

The new spinal anesthesia: Put cocaine in the spine (1902)

A remarkable operation for producing spinal anesthesia, daring in its conception and brilliant in its results, was performed – injecting into the spine a solution of cocaine, so within a few minutes the sense of pain is entirely obliterated.