When someone gets their hand/foot,arm or leg chopped off how did they keep the wound from going bad? Were there people specialised in dealing with this? Did the person just find whatever they could to stop the bleeding? How did it progresses throughout the ages?
Fire or tourniquets. Gunpowder was placed in wounds and lit up to Cauterize lots of little bleeds. As for sterilization, very strong alcohol. Vodka is a modernized equivalent that people still use when they don’t have anything else.