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The writer of the passage feels that if Sigmund Freud had accepted the fact that cocaine is essentially an effective local anaesthetic drug, ----.
In 1883, Sigmund Freud was a young neurologist living
in Vienna and struggling to make ends meet. Like many
doctors, he became interested in a South American
drug that was all the rage, cocaine. On April 30, 1883,
he took a dose of pure cocaine for the first time. He
evaluated its effects on mood, strength and reaction
times and wrote up his findings in a pamphlet called
Über Coca, or “On Cocaine”. His comments read:
“Long, intensive physical work is performed without any
fatigue… This result is enjoyed without any of the
unpleasant after-effects that follow exhilaration brought
about by alcohol… Absolutely no craving for the further
use of cocaine appears after the first, or even after
repeated taking of the drug.” Like other doctors of his
time, Freud failed to recognize that cocaine is highly
addictive – he actually recommended it as a treatment
for morphine addiction. But, he did make one
fascinating observation. Applied to the tongue or nose,
cocaine produces a profound local numbing. Freud
mentioned this to his colleague Karl Koller, an eye
specialist who immediately saw its potential and later
used it to transform eye surgery. In non-addictive forms,
cocaine’s offspring are now widely used as local
anaesthetics in medicine. If Freud had followed through
with his original insight, that cocaine is an anaesthetic,
he would probably have stayed a neurologist and never
found the time to invent psychoanalysis.