{"id":67263,"date":"2023-09-30T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T14:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/?p=67263"},"modified":"2023-09-30T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T14:05:27","slug":"people-horrified-to-discover-what-chainsaws-were-originially-used-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/people-horrified-to-discover-what-chainsaws-were-originially-used-for\/","title":{"rendered":"People horrified to discover what chainsaws were originially used for"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>People are only just discovering what chainsaws were originially used for<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chainsaws as we know them today are used for cutting through trees<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>However, the power tools have a horrifying backstory\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chainsaws are portable power tools used for cutting down trees&#8230; but that wasn&#8217;t their intended use.<\/p>\n<p>Users must be incredibly careful, and\u00a0 injuries are not uncommon &#8211; with around 28,000 chainsaw related incidents in the US each year, according to the National Library of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The motorised tool was wielded as a weapon by Leatherface in the horror movie classic the &#8216;Texas Chainsaw Massacre&#8217; &#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>And the original use of the contraption has a similarly shocking backstory after being invented by two Scottish surgeons in 1780.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/14\/75811837-0-image-a-29_1695649348962.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Over 36,000 people receive hospital treatment each year for chainsaw related accidents, according to the center for Disease Control and Prevention<\/p>\n<p>The first chainsaw was created by John Aitken and James Jeffray and it was actually used to assist childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by a hand crank with teeth that moved along a chain, the invention was a lot smaller and didn&#8217;t look quite as big and scary as the modern equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>The caesarian section wasn&#8217;t common in the 18th century because it was deemed too dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, when a baby became stuck or breached, doctors had to remove parts of cartilage, flesh and bone to create space &#8211; the procedure was called a\u00a0\u2018symphysiotomy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons used to perform the procedure using a knife, however this was a drawn-out and painful operation.\u00a0Anaesthesia wasn&#8217;t invented until 1846<\/p>\n<p>The original chainsaw, later developed into the &#8216;osteotome,&#8217; allowed surgeons to widen the pubic cartilage and cut away diseased bone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/16\/75813179-12558233-The_original_chainsaw_which_was_later_developed_into_the_osteoto-a-5_1695829735042.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The original chainsaw, which was later developed into the &#8216;osteotome,&#8217; allowed surgeons to widen the pubic cartilage and cut away diseased bone<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/15\/75813607-12558233-image-m-34_1695652489248.jpg\" height=\"147\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/25\/15\/75813605-12558233-image-m-33_1695652482181.jpg\" height=\"191\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/16\/75813603-12558233-image-a-3_1695829734005.jpg\" height=\"122\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/16\/75813601-12558233-As_this_information_circulated_around_social_media_users_were_ho-a-4_1695829734098.jpg\" height=\"126\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>As this information circulated around social media, users were horrified by the revelation.<\/p>\n<p>As this information circulated around social media, users were horrified by the revelation.<\/p>\n<p>One person tweeted: &#8216;Think medicine cares about women&#8217;s pain, either historically or presently? 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I dare you&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Others added &#8216;Do not look up why was the chainsaw invented&#8217; and &#8216;Be grateful for modern medicine and if you\u2019re not go Google why the chainsaw was invented&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another use wrote &#8216;I don\u2019t think I wanted to know this,&#8217; while someone else added &#8216;Oh my God that\u2019s medieval!&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12558233\/People-just-discovering-chainsaws-originially-used-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are only just discovering what chainsaws were originially used for Chainsaws as we know them today are used for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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