I have this romantic notion they’d have a couple gulps of amber coloured spirits before the barber/surgeon would carve out the rotten parts.
But, what if, perchance, like me, it is the brain that is rotten?
Trepanning will do. Might take an extra gulp first.
Literally, though iirc they just used a club.
but why not a brick? D:
Too expensive… and sexy.
…sexy?
Bricks, amiright 🥵
More realistically, a good deal of alcohol.
Mallet. Or at least according to my CRNA father, but he could have been pulling my leg.
And they put the operating rooms on the top floor so nearby pedestrians wouldn’t hear the screaming so loudly.
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Didn’t they use large doses of nicotine?
Opium. That and a solid strip of leather to bite down on.
I think it was more like a large amount of whiskey, a cloth to bite on and 3 to 5 people to hold you down whilst they sawed off your leg as quickly as possible.
If you were lucky, you’d get laudanum, which is a mixture of opium and alcohol.
That sounds absolutely awesome tbh
Naw, we just bit the bullet.
