analgesic vs soporific

analgesic

noun
  • Any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain, especially without inducing a loss of other sensation. (Contrast anesthetic.) 

adj
  • Acting to relieve pain; being an analgesic. 

  • Unable to feel pain. 

soporific

noun
  • Something inducing sleep, especially a drug. 

  • Something boring or dull. 

adj
  • Boring, dull. 

  • Tending to induce sleep. 

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