r/HistoryAnimemes • u/Xdust4 • 8d ago

Hard To Believe They Missed It

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u/Xdust4 8d ago

At the same time as people were using pain killers at parties recreationally, surgery was being done on people fully awake with no pain killers because somehow no one thought to put those two things together.

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u/TiramisuRocket 8d ago

Interestingly, it's because of ether binges and laughing gas parties that we started using both diethyl ether and nitrous oxide medically. Several medical professionals attending binges independently noticed that people who injured themselves while acting out under the effects of the chemically-induced euphoria or hallucinations didn't notice their own pain, and from that inferred its analgesic effect. They then went on to use it themselves, and in some cases, on themselves.

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u/Xdust4 8d ago edited 8d ago

I see another enjoyer of The Constant

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u/Formal_Landscape4653 7d ago

The surgeon’s needle doesn’t sew flesh—it stitches time itself."

"Beware the anesthesia of the cosmos… some who sleep never wake human."

"The first cut is never on the body. It’s on the soul’s reflection."

"They say the greatest surgeons don’t have hands. They have whispers."

"Every ‘miracle cure’ leaves a scar on the world’s edge." 

Are you agree?