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minus-square@EtterralinkEnglish18•2 days agoThat is until you break a bone and learn that there are no pain killers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-22 days ago The ancient Greeks used electric rays to numb the pain of childbirth and operations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_ray Not the most effective, but hey, better then opioid addiction
minus-square@DasuslinkEnglish9•edit-22 days agoBut they literally did have, well, not opioids, but opium. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium Evidence from ancient Greece indicates that opium was consumed in several ways, including inhalation of vapors, suppositories, medical poultices, and as a combination with hemlock for suicide. So no problem with pain medication, actually. @[email protected]
That is until you break a bone and learn that there are no pain killers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_ray
Not the most effective, but hey, better then opioid addiction
But they literally did have, well, not opioids, but opium.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium
So no problem with pain medication, actually. @[email protected]