In the olden days, What did they use to amputate a body part?? An axe or saw or what?
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Surgical instruments have hardly changed since ancient times, though standards of asepsis and anaesthesia have much advanced.
As today, a sharp knife (scalpel) was used on soft tissue. A bone-saw was used where necessary. Needles and catgut were used to sew up the wound, and severed arteries were bound up with silken or gut threads. A surgeon of the 19thC would not be totally lost in a modern operation.
As today, a sharp knife (scalpel) was used on soft tissue. A bone-saw was used where necessary. Needles and catgut were used to sew up the wound, and severed arteries were bound up with silken or gut threads. A surgeon of the 19thC would not be totally lost in a modern operation.
crap-a-lot
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saw or hot knife
Lotta Ruutu
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First the patient was given loads of string alcohol. Then their limb was cut off with a saw/knife/axe. Then a hot iron was pressed on it to stop the bleeding.
