When you're bleeding out you lose a lot of salt

When you're bleeding out you lose a lot of salt.

styptic, look for the video of it being used on a pig.

It's cocaine dumbass

That scene was brutal.

that's why they say he man nice shot

how fucking dumb are you?

the pain from the salt keeps you awake and alive

Dude, it's sulfa powder.

Sulfa powder. Why couldn't you just fucking Google this? It's combat medic stuff.

they had to make sure there were no snails in the wound

when you salt the wound it keeps it from spoiling

Kek

Salt was typically poured into wounds since the Civil War. It caused tremendous pain and helped the soldier focus on staying alive

It's called a visual metaphor. Speilberg is making a play on the phrase 'to pour salt on the wounds', the guy has already been shot, so in order to 'pour salt on the wounds' as it were, the other men LITERALLY pour salt on the wound. In another ironic twist of fate, further metaphorical salt is poured on the wounds because he dies.

Wow can you link me to your 'blog or PhD thesis please?

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but... thats not a metaphor

>this thread

xD so funny guise take ure upvote

Jesus

But aren't you already in tremendous pain from a bullet being drilled into your body?

>i'm so jealous because i couldn't come up with a funny answer

The dirty krauts were coating their bullets in soporifics, the Americans would pass out and die under their own body weight

Wtf man slug would've been much funnier

Why not just give him some gatorade?

yeah you would think that you faggot

Not that cool user, but when did Sup Forums become a reddit upvote kek contest?

He was pouring jews into the wound, fuckin ell read a history book.

2013 or so

It's dried up liberal tears

Salt is used as a preservative. On the battlefield they can't get the bodies to a mortician on time, so in order to prevent the bodies from decomposing they salt the wounds.

Fuck me, I don't like thinking about WW2.

Also how fucking ugly does SPR look in 480p?

Historical illiterates everywhere in here.

They're pouring sulfa powder on the wounds - sulfonamides were the first mass-produced antibiotic, invented in the 1930s.

Not an expert on military first aid or anything, but it feels like they're not acting with much common sense here.

Rather than bandaging or putting pressure on the wounds to stop the bleeding, they're just wiping away the blood and allowing him to continue bleeding all over the place.

I would imagine it's supposed to be a hemostatic agent