Pull an abscessed tooth without novocaine before you long for the good old days.
Agreed. And is a primary reason along with refrigeration and antibiotics that I wouldn’t at this stage in life wish to go to far back in history. As a teenager or early 20’s something and feeling bulletproof. Exploring the Smokey Mountains or Rocky Mountains mostly wild and never before seen by a white man sounded like a good and free time to have lived.
Dido for the Wild West and having a half drunk Doc Holiday trying to pull it.