the poet of invictus and anesthesia?

Franklin

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the poem invictus (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Invictus)

written by the poet william ernest henley in 1875, describes the post-amputation of the poet when he was 17. from the time period is it reasonable to assume that henley endured the operation without anesthetics?
 
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