Assuming that I’m person who got wounded, what could I do to survive? Be it a slash from a bear during a hunt or the result of some skirmish, how would it be dealt with before medicine started to advance rapidly? From what I’ve read, I assume that it’d be better not to visit a doctor who’d probably smear me with dog fat mixed with some shady ingredients (very likely of human origin, especially dead human origin), so what would be a good alternative? Or do these books go too far in depicting medical atrocities for shock value and doctors back then actually knew something?