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Literally, though iirc they just used a club.
Mallet. Or at least according to my CRNA father, but he could have been pulling my leg.
I have this romantic notion they’d have a couple gulps of amber coloured spirits before the barber/surgeon would carve out the rotten parts.
But, what if, perchance, like me, it is the brain that is rotten?
Trepanning will do. Might take an extra gulp first.
Didn’t they use large doses of nicotine?
Opium. That and a solid strip of leather to bite down on.
Naw, we just bit the bullet.
