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Hot iron cauteries are used to destroy tissue or to stop bleeding.
Cauteries, such as this one from Somalia, have also been used for
'counter-irritation'. Counter-irritation substitutes the pain of
the cautery for that of the disease – it causes irritation
in one part of the body to relieve pain or inflammation in another
area. This cautery consists of a nail fixed to a stick. It was made
some time before 1934–5.
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database record 1936.16.15
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