Arrow wounds

[antimonyschnuck]

 This Tumblr post has lots of information about arrows and arrow inflicted wounds!
www.tumblr.com/salt-and-a-dash-of-pepper/181277837478/writing-advice-on-arrow-wounds

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

This isn’t a situation that would arise in a mundane setting, but I’m recalling that in Ladyhawke the healer had to wait until sundown to treat Lady Isabeau’s arrow wound: in human form, the wound would occupy far less of her total mass.

(Although there’s at least one instance of a red-tailed hawk(1), the species used in the movie, surviving for a month in the wild with an embedded arrow before he was captured, treated, and released; that said, he did have the benefit of 2016 U.S. veterinary medicine.

https://www.wsls.com/news/2016/04/07/hawk-shot-by-arrow-seen-flying-in-pennsylvania/

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2016/04/11/hawk-mend-after-arrow-removed-its-chest/82913350/

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2016/04/13/injured-hawk-arrow-release-game-commission/82986670/)

(1) That An Evil Cleric Did It only partially explains what a redtail was doing in Fairytale Medieval France; how the Bishop of Aquila had access to a New World bird as a curse template is a whole ‘nother headscratcher.

[pallas_rose]

Interesting!!!

My first thought about that situation is: boy I'd rather work on a human any day, regardless of size or relative size of wound. The structures you'd have to repair on a bird would be SO MUCH SMALLER. Tiny stitches are HARD; tiny blood vessels that get fixed clot off :(