Synthetic drugs as specific analgesics
Pfeiffer, C.C.
Modern Hospital 76(4): 100-106
1951
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-783X PMID: 14826695 Document Number: 9995
The development of specific synthetic analgesic agents is a goal that has long been sought. Attainment of this end has been delayed by at least two factors. First, our knowledge of the physiology of pain is incomplete and, second, genuinely useful new analgesics are few. Some new drugs have, however, recently appeared which hold promise of meeting more adequately the requirements of two distinctly different pain situations, obstetrical pain and the pain of terminal carcinoma. These newer synthetic analgesics have already brought us to the point where we are no longer dependent upon opium as a source of analgesic agents. The one possible exception to our independence of opium derivatives is codeine which is used widely in cough remedies. No adequate substitute for codeine has as yet been synthesized and proved to be as effective and safe in subduing the symptom of cough.
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