Vintage Hygiene Practices That Are the Very Opposite of Clean

 
There Was No Sterilization or Anesthesia for Surgeries

People of the 1800s had no concern or fear of germs and bacteria. When it came to performing any type of surgery, the doctors never sterilized the tools used. It wasn't even a concept brought to people's attention until the end of the century. This put people at high risk for infection because the same uncleaned instruments were used from person to person and could very well spread potential diseases. 

If that wasn't scary enough, there was also no decent anesthetic, so when you were cut open, you felt it. Truly something out of a horror movie.