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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In John Adams biography they talk about his daughter Nabby having breast cancer and getting a mastectomy. (Tw: graphic) >!They held her down while the doc literally lopped off her breast and then cauterized with an iron.!< She died within 2 years anyway.

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