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[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 week ago

Literally, though iirc they just used a club.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

More realistically, a good deal of alcohol.

[-] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

Mallet. Or at least according to my CRNA father, but he could have been pulling my leg.

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago
[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

Too expensive... and sexy.

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago
[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Bricks, amiright 🥵

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

And they put the operating rooms on the top floor so nearby pedestrians wouldn't hear the screaming so loudly.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago
[-] luciole@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

But, what if, perchance, like me, it is the brain that is rotten?

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

Trepanning will do. Might take an extra gulp first.

Didn't they use large doses of nicotine?

[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

If you were lucky, you'd get laudanum, which is a mixture of opium and alcohol.

[-] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

That sounds absolutely awesome tbh

Opium. That and a solid strip of leather to bite down on.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Naw, we just bit the bullet.

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