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[–] CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day 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.