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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Anesthesia wasn’t so much invented as it was rediscovered by western medicine. There are plenty of medicines that were used throughout history for their numbing effects but in more “modern times” doctors decided that pain was somehow part of the healing process and stopped using them. Eventually they realized this was wrong and started searching out anesthesia medicines again.
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