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![Cautery (Pointed Style) [#2M]](/cartgenie/Images/Medium/2m.jpg "Cautery (Pointed Style) [#2M]")
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This blistering iron was used to raise a therapeutic blister as well as for cauterizing uncontrollable hemorrhaging. The practice of cauterizing after amputation had been replaced by 1750 with the more humane practice of tying ligatures on the principal veins and arteries.
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