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Bleeding and Loss of Blood
There are a few surgical principles that should be impressed upon your mind before the subject of treatment is taken up. The first and most important of these is that it requires a great deal more loss of blood than is popularly supposed to endanger life. There is no danger from hemorrhage from a vein and but little from any of the smaller arteries.
The free flow of blood from a wound instead of being alarming is the most beneficial thing that can happen. The cleansing power of flowing blood cannot be overestimated and it is cleansing that all wounds require. That brings up a second thought. All serious consequences arising from incised or punctured wounds come from the invasion of Bacteria, and all your efforts should be directed against these energetic little gentlemen, either those that have already entered the wound or those that are striving to gain ingress.
A simple cut will, if permitted to seal itself up in its own blood, generally heal without any further interference. The man who puts tobacco, flour, soap, or any other of the popular monstrosities on a wound is little short of a criminal.
Moody, Charles Stuart. Backwoods Surgery & Medicine. New York: Outing Pub., 1916. Print.
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