Arrow wounds: "I had used simple-pile arrows, which may be withdrawn from a wound. The simple pile gives greater penetration. Had I used a broad-headed arrow, or the Tuchuk barbed arrow, one would, in removing it, commonly thrust the arrow completely through the wound, drawing it out feathers last. One is accordingly, in such a case, less likely to lose the point in the body." Raiders of Gor pg 79 "She was gasping. Some six inches of the arrow, five inches feathered, protruded from her shoulder." ..."I lifted her from the cruel pinion. She fell to her knees. Now, the arrow gone, her two wounds began to bleed. She shuddered. I would permit some blood to wash from the wound, cleaning it." ..."Then I knelt beside her and, with those skins I had taken from her, bound her wound." ..."She was sick from he wound, and loss of blood. She fainted as I had carried her." Hunters of Gor pg 112 Soft Tissue Trauma: "The hunting arrow, incidentally, has a long, tapering point, and this point is firmly fastened to the shaft. This makes it easier to withdraw the arrow from its target. The war arrow, on the other hand, uses an arrowhead whose base is either angled backwards, forming barbs, or cut straight across, the result in both cases being to make the arrow difficult to extract from a wound. The head of the war arrow, too, is fastened less securely to the shaft than is that of the hunting arrow. The point thus by intent, if the shaft is pulled out, is likely to linger in the wound. Sometimes it is possible to thrust the arrow through the body, break off the point and then withdraw the shaft backwards. At other times, if the point becomes dislodged in the body, it is common to seek it with a bone or greenwood probe, and then, when one has found it, attempt to work it free with a knife. There are cases where men have survived this. Much depends, of course, on the location of the point." Savages of Gor pg 40 [Speaking of an injury] "I had found that I could stand on the leg. It had been lacerated but none of the long, rough-edged wounds was deep. I would have it soon treated by a physician in my own holding." Raiders of Gor, pg 171 Cleansing, Chemical sterilization, and Dressing a wound: "Call one of the physicians," I heard. "One is coming," I heard. These voices came from within the booth. I bent down and brushed aside the canvas, re-entering the booth. Two men with torches were now there, as well as several others. A man held the merchant in his arms. I pulled aside his robes. The wounds were grievous, but not mortal." . . . "A physician entered the booth, with his kit slung over the shoulder of his green robes. He began to attend to the merchant." . . . "When the physician had finished the cleansing, chemical sterilization and dressing of the merchant’s wounds, he left." Beasts of Gor, pgs 103 – 104 Knives and Swords: "I found Flaminius, the Physician, in his quarters, and he obligingly, though drunk, treated the arm which Ho-Tu had slashed with the hook knife. The wound was not at all serious. The games of Kajurilia can be dangerous, remarked Flaminius, swiftly wrapping a white cloth about the wound, securing it with four small metal snap clips." Assassin of Gor pg 264 Hook Knife Wound: [A Physician bandaging a hook knife wound to the arm] "The games of Kajurilia can be dangerous, remarked Flaminius, swiftly wrapping a white cloth about the wound, securing it with four small metal snap clips." Assassin of Gor pg 264 Head Trauma: "There was a small sound of pain. He had apparently been left for dead and was only now recovering consciousness. His grey garment with its scarlet strip of cloth on the shoulder was stained with blood. I unbuckled the helmet strap and gently removed the helmet. One side of the helmet had been cracked open, perhaps by the blow of an ax. The helmet straps, the leather inside, and the blond hair of the soldier were soaked with his blood. He was not much more than a boy." ..."Don't struggle," I said to him, looking at the wound. The helmet had largely absorbed the blow but the blade of the striking instrument had creased the skull, accounting for the flow of blood. Most likely the force of the blow had rendered him unconscious and the blood had suggested to his assailant that the job was finished. His assailant had apparently not been a warrior. With a portion of Lara's cloak I bound the wound. It was clean and not deep." Outlaw of Gor pg 217 Orthopedic Trauma: "One of the girls was moaning and holding her left arm tightly against her body. It must have been severely bruised, if not broken. If it were broken it could be set, and she could then be returned to the cage." Vagabonds of Gor pg 459 [Seeking medical help for a broken bone] "I yanked the fellow by the neck leash of twisted cloth to his feet. I thrust the silver tarsk into his mouth, so that he could not speak. "Seek a physician," I told him. "Have your wrist attended to. It appears to be broken. Do not be in Victoria by morning." I then turned him about and, hurrying him with a well-placed kick, sent him running, awkwardly, painfully, whimpering and stumbling, from the dock." Rogue of Gor, pg 156 Suturing Wounds: "Using the dagger as an awl, punching through the flesh, and the long lacing from the lance head, while Hassan held together the edges of the ripped furrows, I crudely sewed together the rent bloodied meat before me." Tribesmen of Gor pg 263 Infections: [Wounds can get infected] "The zadit is a small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird. It feeds on insects. When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains, infest kaiila, they frequently alight on the animals, and remain on them for some hours, hunting insects. This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide. These tiny wounds, if they become infected, turn into sores; these sores are treated by the drovers with poultices of kaiila dung." Tribesmen of Gor pg 152 [Speaking about the health of soldiers of Ar in the Vosk Delta] "Sickness and infection, too were rampant, hunger and exposure, sunstroke and dysentery were common." Vagabonds of Gor pg 149 Bacteriology: [The Priest Kings eliminate any pathogens on Gor that effect them, they don't however remove all of the pathogens that are harmful to humans] "I would later learn that these rays, which passed through my body as easily and harmlessly as sunlight through glass, were indexed to the metabolic physiology of various organisms which can infect Priest-Kings. I would also learn that the last known free instance of such an organism had occurred more than four thousand years before. In the next few weeks in the Nest I would occasionally come upon diseased Muls. The organisms which afflict them are apparently harmless to Priest-Kings and thus allowed to survive." Priest Kings of Gor pg 108 "Your father was instructed to call you Tarl, and lest he might speak to you of the Counter-Earth or attempt to dissuade you from our purpose, he was returned to Gor before you were of an age to understand. "I thought he deserted my mother," I said. "She knew," said Misk, "for though she was a woman of Earth she had been to Gor." "Never did she speak to me of these things," I said. "Matthew Cabot on Gor," said Misk, "was a hostage for her silence." "My mother," I said, "died when I was very young." "Yes," said Misk, "because of a petty bacillus in your contaminated atmosphere, a victim to the inadequacies of your infantile bacteriology." Priest Kings of Gor pg 127