Coca Cola and Sigmund Freud

Coca Cola and Sigmund Freud

Most people know that Sigmund Freud was the father of modern psychoanalysis, but did you know that he was also the care father of Coca Cola? There is no good evidence that psychoanalysis can heal serious mood or thinking disorders such as severe depression or schizophrenia. Modern psychiatry depends on the use of medication to change the brain levels of neurotransmitters, and psychotherapy along with medication is more effective than just medication alone. The only scientific work that Sigmund Freud ever wrote did not deal with psychotherapy. It was about cocaine.

In 1881 Sigmund Freud began to experiment with cocaine. His first and only strict scientific work dealt with cocaine, not with psychoanalysis. The German army used cocaine to avoid exhaustion, and Freud believed that this could help some of his patients with nervous disorders. He sent some cocaine to his fiancee Martha Bernays, who lived a few miles away and said: "In my last difficult depression, I took cocaine again and a little dose took a wonderful way up. I just gathered the literature for a song of praise for this magical substance." Freud wanted to marry Martha, but her parents were rich and skeptical about this young, who was born up, after all, in which it was suspected To ask your daughter's hand. When Freud discovered cocaine, he had great hopes to impress her with his discovery that cocaine hunger, thirst and depression could heal and even give people a good feeling. He could hardly wait to present this new miracle drug to the scientific community and to publish "On Coca" in June 1884.

Shortly after his work was published, Freud met an ophthalmologist named Carl Koller. Freud and Koller began to take cocaine themselves. Koller noticed that cocaine stunned his lips when he drank it and wanted to see what would happen if he put his patients in the eye before the operation. He showed that cocaine can be dripped into the eye to block pain during eye operation. But at that time Freud was not in the city and visited Martha. When he came back, he was disturbed when he found out that Koller had published his new discovery, and now Koller was known as the discoverer of the first local anesthetic for eye surgery. Freud had received his great discovery from another doctor.

At this time, John Styth Pemberton in the USA released his own version of a drink containing cocaine in alcohol. People bought his drink and loved what it did to them, but in 1885 the city of Atlanta banned the sale of alcohol. So Pemberton had to change the recipe. He removed alcohol from his drink and sold his new drink under the name Coca-Cola. People didn't buy this new concoction as much as they had bought his drink, which contained cocaine in alcohol, so he thought his drink had failed and sold his patent to Asa Griggs Candler for just $2,300. However, that was a lot of money in 1890, and the drink tasted terrible. Asa Grigg Candler added carbon dioxide bubbles to the drink, which had both cocaine and alcohol removed, and it was an instant success. Now you know that Sigmund Freud, who is now known as the father of psychoanalysis, should also be known as the foster father of Coca Cola.

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