Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in Britain: Health and the People (c1000–Present).
The painful surgical technique of using a red-hot iron to burn human tissue in order to seal a wound and stop severe bleeding.
Cauterisation appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Thematic Studies, especially Britain: Health and the People (c1000–Present) and Medical Progress.
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