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u/ConflictAgreeable689 9d ago
Yep. That's just good medicine.
Though not great if you can't sterilize your tools
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u/AlabasterWitch 9d ago
You can sterilize tools in boiling water or in alcohol. I wouldn’t be surprised if people had bottles of high-alcohol content spirits for this purpose. Alcohol already has a holy or sacred connotation in most cultures too.
Douse the tools of healing in sacred wine to bless them and people survive more often.
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u/Quiri1997 9d ago
As a biology student, we usually sterilize our tools with fire (from a Bunsen flame) in the lab. In Imperial China they knew to use fire or alcohol.
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u/AlabasterWitch 3d ago
While true, introducing heat to a metal implement can weaken it leading to bending, breaking or flaking.
If you don’t know that you have a really pure metal that is able to withstand that heat you might not want to chance putting it into a fire that you don’t particularly have control over.
I don’t know what metal these are made from in particular, but for example, silver has a really low annealing temperature, which means that you can feasibly soften it in a regular fire. I used to do it when I was making a set of rings from silver coins, I would get a little fire going stick them in the coals and it was hot enough to soften the metal.
If you need to constantly sterilize the tools alcohol might be more popular due to the fact you can just dunk it back in when you’re done like how we use barbicide today.
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u/Quiri1997 3d ago
Those are surgical needles, so depending on the period they're either Iron or steel. Which means there's little issue with that, unless you're the kind of brute to use a high furnace to sterilize them.
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u/AlabasterWitch 3d ago
True! Wouldn’t constant heating and cooling weaken the metal regardless? I also wouldn’t apply modern metal logic to ancient tools. Tools made with zinc or nickel are still possible due to impurities and lack on knowledge
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u/Quiri1997 1d ago
If used for several decades, yes. And I'm talking about the Imperial Chinese kind of tools.
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u/AlabasterWitch 1d ago
Me too, they’d likely be passed down from teacher to student as they’d be expensive to make. And less pure metal alloys would be more prone to the issues above.
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u/HardLithobrake 10d ago
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u/Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi 10d ago
Forgot about this sub lol. I can't watch it but there's something weirdly satisfying to do it on yourself, if it's like a small one it still makes me shudder
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u/JakdMavika 10d ago
Well, lancing is a type of accurate puncturing I suppose.