Gregory's Server@RickiTarr I've been thinking about how fortunate we are to live with modern anesthesia and surgical practices, rather than the butchery of the 1800's and earlier.
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 @zompus Yikes, I can't imagine, and I know we'll look back on now and say the same things, I can't believe they treated cancer like that, it's barbaric ect...  @zompus @RickiTarr My late grandmother claimed that when she was little (so v early 20th century) at the village fair, the dentist would set up next to a brass band. If he had to do an extraction or similar, he'd signal the band to play louder. She *might* have been joshing me, but it sounded totally plausible! @zompus @RickiTarr I remember awhile back reading that Samuel Pepys had procedure to remove bladder stone, sounded horrific, this covers it :- https://vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/blog/2020/spare-a-thought-for-samuel-pepys/  |
@zompus @RickiTarr No kidding. I had a badly cracked molar removed, a bone graft (real cadaver bone, rehydrated with my own red juice) and later an implant installed and I was not awake for any of it. And I'm super f'in happy I don't remember people hammering away on my face or pushing my sinus *floor up to make room for said bone graft. And I'm eating right now with that fake tooth. Modern medicine ain't perfect but holy hell it's a lot better than it was 100 years ago.