Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 minutes ago

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How did amputation at one point become a common medical procedure? How did people get the idea that cutting off a leg would heal a person rather than making them bleed to death? How do you remove a leg without anaesthetics, without antisepsis to clean the wound, and without cutting circulation once the leg has been removed?

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