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Solving a wound by giving it a worse, more decisive problem: fire.
means To seal a wound or stop bleeding by burning the tissue with heat or chemicals.
from From Greek kauter, a branding iron, via Latin cauterizare — medicine borrowed the blacksmith's tool wholesale.
Ancient ERUsed since antiquity to stop bleeding before stitches existed.
Two flavorsDone with hot metal or caustic chemicals like silver nitrate.
Metaphor dutyNow also means numbing emotion to survive it.