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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?

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What ideas, customs, military strategies or just general cultural norms did crusaders take away & adapt from the centuries of crusades in the middle East and bring back home?

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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?	14
What ideas, customs, military strategies or just general cultural norms did crusaders take away & adapt from the centuries of crusades in the middle East and bring back home?	7