Science Department

The necessity of not feeling pain was always present through history. It is said that in the ancient texts anesthesia was first started to be talked about during the 4000 a.C. The first methods that served as sedatives included herbs.  The first sedatives were used in places where native plants were pshycoactive. The most used or popular plants included: opium, henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), mandrake and coca leaves. The first actual, and official doctors to use this was  Hua Tu

Data, like a facial expression, means nothing without context. A statistic can save lives or justify injustice, depending on who explains it and how it is used. Political leaders, much like scientists, must learn to translate facts into meaning, emotion into action. The connection between science and politics lies not in their differences, but in their shared responsibility to make sense of human experience—truth, empathy, and consequence all intertwined. “When I was looking