Interesting CW story

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Hard to believe that mud & sod would clot a wound better than a bandage.

This will likely gross some people out, but my uncle (born in 1902) once told us about working as a teenager in our family's store in T.B. One day, a recent immigrant from Germany was working on something that had broken on his buggy and managed to slice open a large cut on his forearm. Without hesitating, he reached down and grabbed a handful of manure that his horse had just deposited and slapped it on the open wound.

That "bandage" evidently worked very well because the gentleman waited for awhile and then went to the outside pump and washed his arm. No further bleeding, and the arm was fine the next time he came to the store. Never under-estimate the powers of Mother Nature.