text: In Classical antiquity, anaesthetics were described by:
  * Pedanius Dioscorides (De Materia Medica), a Greek physician living in Rome during the first century A.D., who is recorded as the first person to make explicit reference to the administration of mandrake-induced anesthesia to facilitate a surgical intervention.
  * Galen
  * Hippocrates
  * Theophrastus (Historia Plantarum)