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Cauterizing wounds with fire as a way of stopping bleeding out and infection has been known for a long time. Alternatively, when slave boys were castrated/emas
by rippercushions 4y ago
Cauterizing wounds with fire as a way of stopping bleeding out and infection has been known for a long time. Alternatively, when slave boys were castrated/emasculated to become eunuchs, they would be buried up their necks in sand until the wound healed. Apparently the death rate was still massive though.
- scohesc 4y agoDo you have any reading material about this? I'm genuinely curious what burying surgical wounds in sand would do to help encourage healing... Or maybe it didn't?