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    How to Stop Bleeding, 1664

    To Stench a Bleeding Wound: Lay hogs Dung, hot from the Hog, to the Bleeding Wound.

    Samuel Strangehopes, A Book of Knowledge in Three Parts

    Stench, indeed.

    Tags: 17th century, bleeding, dung, hot from the hog, medicine

    Updated: May 07, 2013

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