when were sleeping aids first introduced?
by Author on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments
around what year,
by whom,
etc.
all help is greatly appreciated,
please source your information
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The summerians used heroin poppies to induce sleep around 4,000 years ago (thats why the latin name means sleep-inducing poppy – papavaer somniforum(sp?))
And poppy has been the base of sleeping medication until quite recently….
And then not long ago (historically speaking), a whole large class of drugs, including many different catagories of drugs were introduced, called hypnotics…
And since I have no intention of doing all your homework, I’ll provide a link and let you do the rest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotic
Haha, you said aids =P