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I'm reading Bernal Díaz' Conquest of New Spain and there are various references to treating wounds with fat from the bodies of slain natives. How/was this common practice at the time and how did it not lead to rampant infection and scorn for sacrilege of corpses?

by /u/Gordianus_El_Gringo in /r/AskHistorians

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