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[real life body horror] I just learned what the chainsaw was first invented for
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it was not for chopping down trees
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:-(
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the initial context for which the chainsaw was first prototyped
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was for fucking
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childbirth
yuri duty
um???
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In the late 18th century, 2 Scottish doctors, John Aitken and James Jeffray, developed a prototype of the chainsaw—familiar today in the timber industry—for symphysiotomy and the excision of diseased bone.
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EsperBot
symphysiotomy being a (no longer practiced) procedure where, during a difficult childbirth, you cut some of the cartilage connecting joints in the pelvis to allow it to widen and allow the baby to pass.
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These days, you just have a C-section instead, but at the time, a C-section was a WILDLY dangerous procedure and this was much safer
RobotApocalypse
yeah it's pretty horrifying
Princess Emily
I learned this from Fauna terrifying
Wolfgirl Summer
oh that is so much scarier than i thought
bluecanary
wh,
bluecanary
was it

was it at least
smaller .......????
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probably
RobotApocalypse
also hand-operated with a crank, instead of motor powered
DoveEaterXC
both of those yes
Echo
"Rip and tear, until it is born" is not a sentence I should ever have had to think. D:
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