How were people able to go through surgeries before anesthesia came into place?

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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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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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