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5. In days where people didn't understand bacterial infections, yes it was a death sentence.

Thu Nov 29, 2012, 09:38 PM

Nov 2012

Unless the wounds were doused with strong whiskey repeatedly and had the bandages changed repeatedly, it would have gotten infected.

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