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Jad Abumrad

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It's also got this awesome dome.

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It's this beautiful domed room with light streaming down from above.

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Like the acoustics in here are crazy.

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It must have been terrifying though if you actually heard somebody screaming.

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I mean, it's so resonant in here.

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The screams would have been deafening and absolutely would have been terrifying.

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What is this place?

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Well, this was an operating room.

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And back in the 1800s, when this room was really in use... Being in an operation was so painful.

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This is Julie.

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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.

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Back then, during surgery, there were no painkillers, and patients were awake.

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probably more awake than they'd ever been in their whole lives.

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This is such a cool room.

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Here we are at the top of the ether dome.

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But then, everything changes.

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October 16th, 1846.

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It's a Friday morning.

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I assume the room is full?

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The room is absolutely full.