Brutkey

zl2tod
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

Amputation was the best chance against infection before antibiotics.

Lint is called muka in Maori, and was the basis of assumedly independently developed weaving technology.

I first saw kuia scraping flax with oyster shells almost sixty years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWbOSqI2Nj8

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Stumpy The Mutt
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@zl2tod@mastodon.online @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @EugestShirley@m.ai6yr.org If you're referring to wound treatment during the American Civil War, it really wasn't. Getting hit by a slow-moving .58" chunk of lead was a lot like today's wounds delivered by IEDs. It literally destroys the limb it hits - nothing at all like a wound from a NATO 5.56x45 bullet. The Army medical people actually did research into ACW amputations at places like the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.
https://www.civilwarmed.org/