How were people able to go through surgeries before anesthesia came into place? Alcohol barely does anything for the pain.
I imagine the pain alone would make most people flip out. There’s no chance they could just sit still and bear it, could they?
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Ever had to do anything where you just had no other choice?
You’d have several strong someones holding them down and give them something to bite on. It was awful and people often died.
Poorly
Drink this whiskey, and bite down on your belt is a trope from cowboy movies. Id expect laudunum, a mixture of booze and opium was better than nothing
I once had a drainage tube removed from an infected ostomy. You can’t anesthetize infected tissue, so it was like being operated on *sans* anesthetic. Thank god it didn’t last more than five minutes, but it was the longest five minutes of my life.
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