stackyFACTSWhen you lacked modern chemical anesthetics, you had to raid the spice cabinet for medical salvation.
When you lacked modern chemical anesthetics, you had to raid the spice cabinet for medical salvation. For centuries, practitioners dunked cotton in highly concentrated clove oil and shoved it into rotting cavities. The eugenol naturally present in cloves actually acts as a mild anesthetic and antiseptic, proving that occasionally, our ancestors stumbled upon something better than just hitting the patient with a mallet.
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