A local anesthetic drug derived from benzoic acid, used in early-to-mid 20th century medicine and now largely replaced by modern anesthetics.
Derived from benzoic acid chemistry; the name likely comes from its chemical classification rather than a person or place. Used in pharmaceutical naming conventions of that era.
Alypin was cutting-edge anesthesia in the 1930s, but it's completely replaced now—medicines have such short 'expiration dates' that drugs that seemed miraculous are totally forgotten within decades!
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