Comment on Neanderthal dentists used stone drills to treat cavities nearly 60,000 years ago, ancient molar suggests

Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  One anesthesia pleaaaaseee!!!

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It probably hurt so bad already that this felt like a last resort. People used to say bugs or gremlins or w/e caused tooth pain so Neander Von Thal might have been begging to have it popped

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• bunkyprewster@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We didn’t have any kind of local anesthesia until they figured out cocaine could do this near the end of the 1800s.

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  • luciole@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Medicinal plants to manage pain have been used since the dawn of time. Western medecine took a while to care about how patients feel though.

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  • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cloves were about as close as you could get before that.

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• LimpRimble@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  drilling out a cavity with stone tools would benefit from anesthesia

  Probably just used a larger stone.

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  • newton@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ty, best one ive heard today🤣

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Nurse, prep patient.”

    “Yes, doctor.”

    hits patient in the head with a club to knock him out

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    • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yokel anesthesia

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    😂 In Earth’s Children, the main character occasionally uses anesthetic beverages to operate on others painlessly. I don’t know how documented that is. When I have some free time, I’ll look up anesthetic use during the neolithic upper paleolithic.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I suppose they could make wine, but anything stronger would require distilling. I’m not sure if they were capable of that? Though maybe there were other things they could smoke or ingest. Opium comes to mind, but not sure if that was available in the geographic regions you would find Neanderthals?

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      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ah, yes, alcohol. Why not ! I don’t know where opium grows. In the books they use datura !

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      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think there is evidence of neanderthals making pottery. Unlikely that they would be able to make alcohol.

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