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Were Aztec doctors any better treating at traumatic injuries/combat wounds than their contemporary Western European counterparts? Did widespread human sacrifice and obsidian tools give Aztec medicine any advantages in knowledge of anatomy and surgery?

by /u/DamnesiaVu in /r/AskHistorians

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