Was just reading on pre 20th century amputations and how they strived to be as fast as possible, cutting through bone and all.
Why didn’t they just amputate at the joint, like a butcher cuts pork or beef? That would have been way faster than sawing off though bone.
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The stump needs to have a specific shape to be able to use prosthetics and also extra skin needs to be left in order to close the wound. Lastly stopping the bleeding and bandaging such a wound is very difficult and would lead to certain death from infection in earlier times
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