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Full-Mulberry5018 t1_j2arsxc wrote

Anesthesia came much, much, much later. So I wonder what that surgery must have felt like without it.

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AquaQuad t1_j2beyzn wrote

I think alcohol and other mind numbing drugs existed back then, as well as a solid wooden club to the back of patients head.

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lightsdevil OP t1_j2atspb wrote

I suppose that was why it was used to disfigure thieves

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