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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Many of these operations were done before the discovery of modern anesthetic. Often the best you could do was pour an entire bottle of 80 proof rum down the poor sod’s throat to try and dull the pain, then get three strong men to hold them down while you cut. Getting fancy round the joint while your patient screams and thrashes around would be a nightmare, hence the approach of hacking the limb off and hoping they live.
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