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The doctor cleansed the wound with white wine

Of all the things he had available to him this is probably one of the best disinfectants. Sounds like this guy really did know what he was doing.

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I'm quite fascinated by pre-modern medicine. There was a lot of nonsense, but particularly with regards to surgery there were some remarkable successes

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Yeah. They may not have been as good as we are now, but they were way better than nothing. Like in the Civil War 80% of the guys who got shot survived.

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