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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They didn’t! Generally you were held down or strapped to the table, had something shoved in your mouth to bite down on, and then passed out or died part way through the procedure. Anesthesia was such a massive step towards successful surgery that it almost worked too well and doctors began prescribing surgery for *everything*, even when it did no good, as they still didn’t quite understand what caused secondary complications like infection.
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