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To: MrEdd

Medieval surgeons must be satanic or something to do what they did.


15 posted on 01/15/2016 11:18:43 AM PST by sagar
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To: sagar

Or they lived in a time when the onset of gangrene was a death sentence and they were trying to learn how to save at least a few.

Your perspective requires you to ignore entirely (not just minimize) how short life was just from infection a alone.

Read a lot of period literature.


19 posted on 01/15/2016 11:25:44 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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