Your surgeon used to knock you out with angel dust. 💉

Your surgeon used to knock you out with angel dust. 💉 . . . In 1956, Parke-Davis launched Sernyl — pure PCP — as a human surgical anesthetic. It worked. Patients felt no pain. The problem: they woke up hallucinating, agitated, sometimes psychotic for days. Parke-Davis pulled it from human use in 1967 and rebranded it Sernylan — for elephants and horses. By the 1970s it was on street corners as angel dust.