• saimen@feddit.org
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    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.

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      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.