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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Keeping the patient held down, with restraints, or having people hold them down, or both. And going really fast.
The deadliest surgery in history had a 300% mortality. Basically in a bid to be as fast as possible, the surgeon accidentally cut off a finger of the assistant holding the patient down. As well as cutting the coat of a nearby spectator (because people do spectate surgeries in those days).
The patient and assistant both died of an infection, and the spectator died of a heart attack after mistakenly thinking they too were cut.
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