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[prof_vencire]

Learned today that arrow-wounds are more likely to become infected than bullet-wounds.

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[merovingian]

Secondhand, I hope.

[prof_vencire]

Ha, of course. I'm too old for that. I outgrew my first hand years ago.

[sterlingphoenix]

That's not super-surprising, is it?

[prof_vencire]

I'd honestly never applied any mental energy to thinking about it, but there's more to it than just "bullets get sterilized by the explosion a bit" and some interesting bits about the texture of the wood.

[sterlingphoenix]

My thoughts are bullets are also a lot smaller, make a lot cleaner wounds, and have a lot less organic components. And no feathers.

[prof_vencire]

Basically, yeah. Also, the heat of the blast does do SOME sterilization.

[cloudscudding]

Heat? Gunpowder killing germs? What is the causation?

[prof_vencire]

See above: Size, organic components, texture, some sterilization from being shot (heat, etc., potentially gunpowder for older wounds as it does have some medicinal use, if I recall, but I don't know in-depth how accurate that is), surface area. All sorts of things that make a ton of what feels like really obvious sense but that I never really bothered to think about before.