CHICKEN AS A STYPTIC
The doctor, who had formerly been a country practitioner for many years and had often obtained valuable information from his patients, did not ignore such words but asked, ‘Well, what would you say was good for stopping bleeding?’
However, the doctor did obtain a chicken before the operation, although perhaps more out of curiosity as to what would happen if he actually used it. After collodion treatment and everything else had failed to stop the bleeding, as a last resort, he cut a piece from the chicken and laid it while still warm on the patient’s small incision, which was still bleeding. As if by magic, before the unbelieving eyes of the other doctors, the bleeding stopped.
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