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Anesthetics first got their use with: 1. Natural plants and herbs 2. Alcohol In the B.C.'s there were already anesthetics in use. They would get the subject high or drunk, and then perform the said operation. Mainly, anesthetics were not used until the later 1800's, but if you want to get specific, we could say around the dawn of the Egyptians and the dawn of Native Americans.

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