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.
In The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (set about 100 years prior to this), Frollo is skeptical of a doctor's recommendation of putting a roast mouse in a wound. I wonder how this cooked meat wound care thing got started? And would microwaved meat work just as well?
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