when were sleeping aids first introduced?

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around what year,
by whom,
etc.

all help is greatly appreciated,
please source your information :)
 
The summerians used heroin poppies to induce sleep around 4,000 years ago (thats why the latin name means sleep-inducing poppy - papavaer somniforum(sp?))

And poppy has been the base of sleeping medication until quite recently....

And then not long ago (historically speaking), a whole large class of drugs, including many different catagories of drugs were introduced, called hypnotics...

And since I have no intention of doing all your homework, I'll provide a link and let you do the rest. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotic
 
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