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TIL that the chainsaw was originally invented in the 1780s to assist doctors with difficult childbirths by cutting into the cartilage and bone in a procedure called a symphysiotomy.
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I’m sorry what?
Well that’s horrifying
Is this why women don’t die in child birth as often anymore?
A quick google confirms this.
I didn’t need to know this.
I’m really not sure I wanted to know this.
Edit: read it. Regret it. Good heavens how gruesome. I mean, applauding the want to save lives during difficult child births, of course, but … Good heavens.