How to Stop Bleeding, 1596

One of those days.
(Wound Man, Wellcome Library, London)

A very good Medicine to staunch bloud… Take a peece of Salt Biefe, (the leane onely) as much as will lye in the Wound, and lay the biefe in the Embres of the fire, and let it be thorough hote, and when it is hote, thrust it into the Wounde, and binde it fast, and it will foorthwith staunch the blood, & let it lye for a good space after in the Wounde, for the stopping of the bloud.

A Rich Store-House or Treasury for the Diseased

Too intense for Band-Aids? Try beef jerky.