Male Mandrake plant.Woodcut from Johannis de Cuba Ortus Sanitatis, Strasbourg, 1483. A soporific was obtained from the root and its properties were probably known to the Babylonians. Roman army surgeons are said to have used Mandrake wine as an anaesthetic and it was used for the same purpose in medieval times.

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