Cocaine: How 'Miracle Drug' Nearly Destroyed Sigmund...
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Cocaine: How 'Miracle Drug' Nearly Destroyed Sigmund Freud, William Halsted
In "An Anatomy of Addiction," medical historian Howard Markel details the cocaine addictions of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted, both medical revolutionaries of the 1880s. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser discusses cocaine addiction's early history in medicine with Markel.
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Cocaine: How 'Miracle Drug' Nearly Destroyed Sigmund...
Clip: 10/17/2011 | 7m 9s
In "An Anatomy of Addiction," medical historian Howard Markel details the cocaine addictions of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted, both medical revolutionaries of the 1880s. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser discusses cocaine addiction's early history in medicine with Markel.
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