Literally, though iirc they just used a club.
More realistically, a good deal of alcohol.
Mallet. Or at least according to my CRNA father, but he could have been pulling my leg.
but why not a brick? D:
Too expensive… and sexy.
…sexy?
Bricks, amiright 🥵
And they put the operating rooms on the top floor so nearby pedestrians wouldn’t hear the screaming so loudly.
Great !historymemes@lemmy.world material
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.
Didn’t they use large doses of nicotine?
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
Opium. That and a solid strip of leather to bite down on.
Naw, we just bit the bullet.
It’s terrifying to imagine speed as the most desirable attribute of a surgeon’s skill.
My mind might not be strong enough to handle the trauma.
