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I was reading "Dr. Mutter's Marvels" a while back. The eponymous surgeon was working around the time that anesthesia was being invented in the US, and it talks a bit about how some competing traditionalists believed that pain needed to be part of the actual bone-sawing surgery itself. (Also a natural part of all childbirth, with biblical overtones.)


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