Jad Abumrad
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The story of the day that, you could say, humanity emerged from the dark ages.
We headed in, up three flights of stairs, into this room.
It's this beautiful domed room with light streaming down from above.
It must have been terrifying though if you actually heard somebody screaming.
The screams would have been deafening and absolutely would have been terrifying.
And back in the 1800s, when this room was really in use... Being in an operation was so painful.
She wrote a book called Ether Day, which goes into a lot of detail about the dark, dark days of surgery in the early 1800s.
Back then, during surgery, there were no painkillers, and patients were awake.