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Anthropology

wnylib

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2. Anesthesia as we know it did not exist,

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 30, 2022, 07:06 AM

Mar 2022

so I guess they just accepted it as it was.

But, I bet that they knew the numbing or pain relief effects of some plants to help. They must have known how to handle bleeding and prevent or treat infections, too.

The one treatment that always puzzled me is the blood letting that continued into the late 1700s and early 1800s. Why would they continue it when it must have been evident that the patients got weaker and sicker afterward?

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Stone age brain surgery [View all] wnylib Mar 2022 OP

The surgery might have been done for seizure or psychiatric illness Warpy Mar 2022 #1

Anesthesia as we know it did not exist, wnylib Mar 2022 #2

Not all of them got markedly sicker Warpy Mar 2022 #3

The church opposed scientific developments wnylib Mar 2022 #4

Guy de Chauliac wrote what could be called the first modern medical text Warpy Mar 2022 #5

Yes, the church did obstruct the dissection wnylib Mar 2022 #6

From the above linked article: wnylib Mar 2022 #7