Not yet investigated
What we have so far
The first local anaesthetic, 1884, and still stocked in some ENT theatres because it numbs and constricts at once. Every -caine since is an attempt to keep the first half.
This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.