How were people able to stay still for surgeries before the invention of anesthesia?

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How did people get surgeries done before anesthesia was invented? How were they able to stay still and not move around during the procedures?

There’s no way people could just grit their teeth and feel being cut, could they? The pain alone had to make people act out.

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Local anesthesia is kind of recent, but anesthesia as a whole wasn’t discovered yesterday, there’s a lot of natural alternatives, surely not as effective, but still sort of effective

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