analgesic• She was not initially X-rayed because of her pregnant condition, but was advised to rest and to take an analgesic.• It was better than an analgesic in her blood.• Skeletalmusclerelaxingagents and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are often used but probably are of no more benefit than simple aspirin-based analgesics.• The rest of us find paracetamol an effectiveanalgesic with no important side effects and have no need of an antidote.• That is an argument for having a range of effective analgesics, but hardly for continuing to multiply their numbers indefinitely.• In the majority, pain responded well to minoranalgesics.• It was named enkephalin and its discovery was a majoradvance in the search for new analgesics.