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minus-squaresaimen@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·23 days ago[X] doubt There was no pain killers (except alcohol) and anesthesia just started to become available. You still could die from a rotten teeth. Air and water pollution was still affecting you. I would rather say any time period is pretty bad when you are among the poorest, but it did get substantially better for other classes.
minus-squareCulturedLout@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·23 days agoThey had some pretty decent painkillers available - Opium, morphine, laudanum, cocaine, ether, chloroform. Aspirin too, technically, but that was pretty late in the game if we’re staying Victorian.
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There was no pain killers (except alcohol) and anesthesia just started to become available.
You still could die from a rotten teeth.
Air and water pollution was still affecting you.
I would rather say any time period is pretty bad when you are among the poorest, but it did get substantially better for other classes.
They had some pretty decent painkillers available - Opium, morphine, laudanum, cocaine, ether, chloroform. Aspirin too, technically, but that was pretty late in the game if we’re staying Victorian.