Medieval Battlefield First Aid 1

Quick talk on medieval battlefield surgery and 'first aid'. This segment's concentrating on arrow removal. Let me know if you like it and if you do I'll publish the rest.

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• Battlefield
• first
• aid
• 1

[Disthron]

I think it was a good presentation but the wind blowing in the background made much of it unintelagable.

[falchion49]

@Disthron Fair comment. It was an ad hoc recording anyway but I am working at the mo' on getting it redone inside with proper lights and sound so that should improve it a lot.

[seanotube85]

Good stuff! I'd love to see part 2 if you've got it.

[falchion49]

@seanotube85 I am going to post more but currently I'm trying to produce a 15 minute Childrens Crusade video swo thats taking priority at the mo'.

[JarradIRONEAGLE]

Very interesting. Just starting my MSc (Infectious Diseases). Loss due to septicaemia and wound sepsis must have been enormous.

Honey does have a lot of antimicrobial enzymes, I thought they found recently there's a risk of botulism poisoning if used on wounds because some honey may carry Clostridium botulinum.

[falchion49]

@JarradIRONEAGLE Scepiceamia must have been incredibly prolific. Archeaologically there's not a massive amount to indicate the actually numbers because of the swiftness of death. Plus the other treatments, pouring boining oil into puncture wounds, cauterising wounds were probably fatal anyway. What is notable is the number of soldiers who survived major wounds and went on to fight again.

[Gekkibi]

Thank you for this video. I would love to see more historical videos (Beats hyped tv documentaries every day).

Only problem is the wind because it makes it really hard to hear you. And because my native language is not english it makes it even more difficult to understand what you are saying. I understand that it was recorded outdoors and that you can't do anything about the wind. So I am suggesting that you should add subtitles (Other than the yellow text you used in some videos).

[crystalheart9]

I found this very interesting and would like to see more videos on battlefield surgery.

[textilebro]

well done sire. well done.

Michael in California.

[sammdarden]

Fascinating. I would like to see the rest of this talk. Thanks for sharing!