Ah, back to the old ways. I have a lead slug in one of my collections from our Civil War. If you were shot during the battle at Gettysburg, they took you to a field hospital in an old farmhouse where they held you down and gave you a bullet to bite down on while they sawed off the injured arm or leg. No anesthetics were available.
They reused the bullet until it was a flattened mass with many tooth marks. The ‘surgeons’ were methodical and would throw arms out one window and legs out another. After the ‘surgery’ they would hold a hot iron onto the stump to cauterize the wound.
One of my great grandfathers bought a farm from a one-armed war veteran who told stories of those battles that were vivid enough that they were passed down in family histories to interested people in my generation. I was given my chewed bullet I suspect for gratitude for my long hours of listening to his old stories.
My grandfather had listened to those stories as a boy and retold them to me.
Funny how the people of Scotland should ignore the lessons of history and the stories passed down from over a century ago. That branch of my family were from Durham, England where they were coal miners before they emigrated to the Americas in 1870.
On a visit to Durham in 2019 I visited several local graveyards to pay my respects and noticed how many women died in their 20’s and how many men in their 20’s and 30’s. The women in childbirth and the men in the coal mines I was told.
Do the good people of Scotland really want to turn back the clocks and the calendars to the 1800’s?
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing. We really don't appreciate how good we've got it. These zealots are standing in the way of further progress and, as Gary points out above, I genuinely believe they would have us all suffer more if it means 'saving the planet'.
Back in November I called the direction of travel this idiocy is heading in...
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Is this part of the plan to make us suffer more?
Ah, back to the old ways. I have a lead slug in one of my collections from our Civil War. If you were shot during the battle at Gettysburg, they took you to a field hospital in an old farmhouse where they held you down and gave you a bullet to bite down on while they sawed off the injured arm or leg. No anesthetics were available.
They reused the bullet until it was a flattened mass with many tooth marks. The ‘surgeons’ were methodical and would throw arms out one window and legs out another. After the ‘surgery’ they would hold a hot iron onto the stump to cauterize the wound.
One of my great grandfathers bought a farm from a one-armed war veteran who told stories of those battles that were vivid enough that they were passed down in family histories to interested people in my generation. I was given my chewed bullet I suspect for gratitude for my long hours of listening to his old stories.
My grandfather had listened to those stories as a boy and retold them to me.
Funny how the people of Scotland should ignore the lessons of history and the stories passed down from over a century ago. That branch of my family were from Durham, England where they were coal miners before they emigrated to the Americas in 1870.
On a visit to Durham in 2019 I visited several local graveyards to pay my respects and noticed how many women died in their 20’s and how many men in their 20’s and 30’s. The women in childbirth and the men in the coal mines I was told.
Do the good people of Scotland really want to turn back the clocks and the calendars to the 1800’s?
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing. We really don't appreciate how good we've got it. These zealots are standing in the way of further progress and, as Gary points out above, I genuinely believe they would have us all suffer more if it means 'saving the planet'.
I believe the surgeons of old also plied the patient with copious amounts of Whisky - the 'water of life'.
Obviously that's what they intend to replace modern anaesthetics with here in Scotland.
I can see quite a few Scots would be more than happy with that plan - single malt of course!