Jad Abumrad
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Appearances Over Time
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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.
probably more awake than they'd ever been in their whole lives.