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From recommended medical historian Howard Markel, writer of When Germs Travel, the account of the decades-long drug utilization of Sigmund Freud, young, bold specialist, and William Halsted, the similarly young, pathfinding doctor. Markel writes of the psychological and physical harm brought on by the subsequently-heralded wonder-drug, and how each guy fundamentally transformed the planet regardless of it—or due to it. One became the daddy of psychoanalysis; another, of contemporary surgery. Both males were practicing medicine at the same time frame in the 1880s: Freud at the Vienna General Hospital, Halsted at New York’s Bellevue Hospital. Markel writes that Freud started initially to test out drug as a means of learning its healing uses—as an antidote for the morphine, which had created junkies of a lot of, and as cure for depression.