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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I remember an episode of Radiolab where they did a segment on this. Everyone in the operating theater was in awe of the silence because every operation before that the patients were screaming bloody murder.

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