Well they had cocaine then...you know until very recently cocaine was still used (and might be still in some hospitals) for numbing the cornea. They removed the whole lens then, so without the glasses, one would be "blind" and cannot focus well.
So it might not have been too bad. The tranquilizers, or other sedatives, would not be around though. So the stress would be huge I'd expect.
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