• PugJesus@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Well, no modern anesthesia. If you were lucky, you’d get powdered opium dissolved in wine. Less lucky, and you’d get some small dose of nightshade dissolved in wine. Unpleasant, but at least you’d be unconscious, and (probably) wake up again, eventually.

    Of course, if you were being operated on in emergency circumstances, or as some poor farmer in the middle of nowhere getting a visit from a city doctor, you might very well end up with nothing at all.

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      1 year ago

      None of those ancient anaesthesias sound lucky at all. Even less so for that poor farmer. Nice info though

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        1 year ago

        anything is better than a toothache. Imagine that farmer finally seeing that damn teeth before his eyes. he would feel “lucky”