Medicine has really changed
Submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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balderdash9@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 6 months ago
Lol, this is definitely the more accurate take
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t forget the baby. They did it for babies as well.
Madison420@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t think they did, the concept babies didn’t feel pain persisted well into the 1980s.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I generally don’t try to correct shitposts, but for some reason this one annoyed me because it’s only sort of true and the real truth is more interesting.
And it isn’t even really true about using a gas as anaesthesia:
Then:
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www.rcoa.ac.uk/…/history-anaesthesia
RePsyche@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thank you, that was most edifying.
ExLisper@linux.community 6 months ago
Another fun fact is that using ether during childbirth was forbidden by church for a long time because bible specifically says that giving birth in pain is God’s punishment.
Jeroenvb@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Why would it be?
harry315@feddit.de 6 months ago
Came for the shitpost, stayed for the medicine history education class.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks for this. I also just realized how much I miss reading and posting in /r/askhistorians.