The Brainrot Community on Instagram: "Here’s a long, fun, and fascinating fact about anesthesia that’s part science, part history, and part mind-boggling human ingenuity: Anesthesia, which today most people think of as a routine part of surgery, is actually one of the most remarkable inventions in human history—because it allows us to temporarily “turn off” pain and consciousness safely, something that would have seemed like magic just a couple of centuries ago. Before its discovery, surgery was

Anesthesia in the Civil War - National Museum of Civil War Medicine