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I wonder how do you chop a finger with a stone "blade" without butchering the whole hand. And what about infections afterwards? I know ancient humans were quit

I wonder how do you chop a finger with a stone "blade" without butchering the whole hand. And what about infections afterwards? I know ancient humans were quite hardier than us but I don't see how doing finger amputation with crude tools and no cleaning would not lead to systematic wound infection. Maybe they were using fire?

defrost 3y ago
Likely in much the same manner as a trepanation can be performed with a stone blade with a greater survival rate than the same operation using state of the art Victorian surgery tools. https://neuroscientificallychallenged.com/posts/history-of-neuroscience-the-mystery-of-trepanation https://neuroscientificallychallenged.com/posts/history-of-n... https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/antiviral-herbs https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/antiviral-herbs
thfuran 3y ago
Stone tools are still used for surgery: https://surgicaltools.co.uk/catalogue/blades-knives/scalpels-blades-knives/10110-07-obsidian-scalpels/ https://surgicaltools.co.uk/catalogue/blades-knives/scalpels...