History of Antidepressants
Antidepressants are medications for treating or preventing depression. Before the discovery of antidepressants the substances having exciting effect capable to cause a condition of euphoria (opium and other opiates, caffeine, ginseng) were actively applied for depression treatment. It is applied valerian for anxiety and excitability reduction, also used bromine salts. But the discovery of antidepressants in the early…