These 19th century doctors and scientists experimented with drugs such as hashish, cocaine and chloroform. For some, it led to trouble. For others, it resulted in remarkable discoveries.
Then there's James Young Simpson — Queen Victoria's former physician — who also took a liking to nitrous oxide.he was one of Britain's leading obstetric surgeons and delivered Queen Victoria's babies."He adopted them very quickly. But he was convinced there had to be something better than ether, which is pretty rank [and] kind of petrol-smelling and very flammable," Jay says.
There were doctors who believed that self-experimenting with drugs could help them gain insight into the troubled minds of their patients.
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