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[โ€“] saimen@feddit.org 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[X] doubt

There was no pain killers (except alcohol) and anesthesia just started to become available.

You still could die from a rotten teeth.

Air and water pollution was still affecting you.

I would rather say any time period is pretty bad when you are among the poorest, but it did get substantially better for other classes.

[โ€“] CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

They had some pretty decent painkillers available - Opium, morphine, laudanum, cocaine, ether, chloroform. Aspirin too, technically, but that was pretty late in the game if we're staying Victorian.