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Procaine is a analgesic drug. It is used primarily to reduce the pain of getting certain shots, and is also used by dentists.

Procaine was first made in 1905, and was the first man-made pain-killer that could be taken as a shot. It was created by the German scientist Alfred Einhorn (1857-1917) who gave the chemical the name Novacaine, from the Latin word novus (which means new) and caine, a common ending for alkaloids used as anesthetics.

Procaine is not often used today because other safer and better working pain-killing drugs now exist. Procaine has the advantage of reducing bleeding, unlike other pain-killers.

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