And it was not possible to save the poet Alexander Pushkin, who was wounded in the stomach during a duel in 1837. Dr. Alexei Vodovozov spoke about this in the Potom.Com podcast on RTVI. The video was posted by YouTube NauchDok.
He said blood loss was not the main cause of death.
“The main thing is that the pelvic bones and, of course, the organs there are crushed. There is a very unpleasant microflora, there is fecal peritonitis – oh, what a terrible thing. At that time, this was definitely a death sentence. There are no options,” Vodovozov explained.
The doctor pointed out that bullets in those days were large and carried clothes and dirt into the wound. Antiseptics did not exist, ether anesthesia had not yet been invented, abdominal operations were not performed, and artificial ventilation was in place about 100 years ago.
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