anesthetic vs mitigatory

anesthetic

adj
  • Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity. 

  • Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious. 

noun
  • A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious. 

mitigatory

adj
  • reducing, lessening the effects of something, generally something painful or uncomfortable 

How often have the words anesthetic and mitigatory occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )