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"I had used simple-pile arrows, which may be withdrawn from a wound.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 sknins 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.
(The Priest Kings only eliminated the pathogens on Gor that effect them, and not
those 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 occured 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 bascillus in your
contaminated atmosphere, a victim to the inadequacies of your infantile
bacteriology."
Priest Kings of Gor pg. 127
.....The tiny baby, not minutes old, with tiny gasps and coughs, still startled and distressed with the sharp, frightful novelty of breathing air. never again to return to the shelter of its mother's body, lost in a chaos of sensation, its eyes not focused, unable scarcely to turn its head from side to side, lay before him. The cord had been cut and tied at its belly. Its tiny legs and arms moved. The blood, membranes and fluids, had been wiped from its small, hot, red, firm body. Then it had been rubbed with animal fat.
Mercenaries of Gor page 46
"I sprang to my feet and ran to the door. Flaminius! I cried. Flaminius! A slave running past stopped on my command. Fetch Flaminius! I cried. He must bring blood! Sura must live! The slave hurtled down the hall. Flaminius came in but a few moments. With him he carried the apparatus of his craft, and a cannister of fluid."
Assassin of Gor page 380
"How long were we unconscious?" I asked.
"With tube feedings, of broth mixed with tassa, five days," she said.
Players of Gor page 87
"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
"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
"Sickness and infection, too were rampant, hunger and exposure, sunstroke
and dysentery were common."
Vagabonds of Gor pg. 149
"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
"One of the girls was moaning and holding her left arm tightly against her body.
It must have been severly 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
"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
"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
That was the literal translation of Dar-Kosis-the Holy Disease-or,equivalently, the Sacred Affliction. The disease is named that because it is regarded as being holy to the Priest-Kings, and those who suffer from it are regarded as consecrated to the Priest-Kings. Accordingly, it is regarded as heresy to shed their blood. On the other hand, the Afflicted, as they are called, have little to fear from their fellow men. Their disese is so highly contagious, so invaribly devastating in its effect, and so feared on the planet that even the boldest of outlaws gives them a wide berth. Accordingly, the Afflected enjoy a large amount of freedom of movement on Gor. They are, of course, warned to stay away from the habitations of men, and, if they approach too closely, they are sometimes stoned. Oddly enough, casuistically, stoning the Afflected is not regarded as a violation of the Priest-Kings' supposed injunction against shedding their blood.
Tarnsman of Gor pages 150-151
She did not need the sip root, of course, for, as she had pointed out, she had had some within the moon, and indeed, the effect of sip root, in the raw state, in most women,is three or four moons. In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine." When this is administered she usually knows that she has been selected for crossing with a handsome male slave.
Blood Brothers of Gor page 319
Marauders of Gor page 116
"We permit them," said Flaminius, deigning to offer a bit of explanation, "five Ahn of varied responses, depending on when they recover from the frobicain injection...."
Assassin of Gor page 126
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man, his bundle like a giant's hump on his back.
Outlaw of Gor page 29
"The drug," said Shaba, "was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptons of Bazi plague."
Explorers of Gor, page 154
"The ointment will soon be absorbed," she said. "In a few minutes there will be no trace of it nor of the cuts." The Physicians of Treve, I said, have marvelous medicines. It is an ointment of Priest-Kings," she said.
Priest Kings of Gor page 64
He touched the bloodied cut on my belly, where the branch had struck me. Then, with his hand, he lifted my head, turning it, looking at the cut on my cheek.
"We are not pleased," he said. I said nothing.
"Bring salve," he said. An ointment was brought, and he smeared it across the two cuts. It was odorless. To my surprise it seemed to be absorbed almost immediately.
"You must be careful," he said. Again I said nothing.
"You might have marked yourself," he said, "or might have been blinded." He returned the ointment to another man.
"They are superficial," he told me, "and will heal without trace."
Captive of Gor page 29 - 30
....I saw small fruit trees and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there with sloping roofs of boards, in some such sheds might craftsmen work; in others fish might be dried or butter made.
Marauders of Gor page 81
On the tray, too, was the metal vessel which had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter, from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enameled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers.
Explorers of Gor page 10
.....Most was I surprised to find him holding a tiny, round pipe from which curled a bright wisp of smoke. Tobacco is unknown on Gor, though there are certain habits orvices to take its place, in particular the stimulation afforded by chewing on the leaves of the Kanda plant, the roots of which, oddly enough, when ground and dried, constitute an extremely deadly poison.
Priest-Kings of Gor page 25
Some girls I have been told sometimes try to swallow small coins but this is foolish. The coin can be produced swiftly enough in such cases by emetics and laxatives.
Dancer of Gor page 238
He had removed, by my count, eleven of the creatures. He had put them to the side. There are various ways in which they may be encouraged to draw out, not tearing the skin. The two most common are heat and salt. It is not wise, once they have suceeded in catching hold, to apply force to them. In this fashion, too, often part of the creature is left in the body, a part, or parts, which then must be removed with a knife or similiar tool.
Vagabonds of Gor page 100
"Here is another," said a fellow wading near me, holding up its wet, halfflattened, twisting body in his nand. It was some four inches long, a half inch thick.
Vagabonds of Gor page 97
After dark, various serpents seek out the road for its warmth, its stones retaining the sun's heat longer than the surrounding countryside. One such serpent was the huge, many-banded Gorean python, the hith. One to be feared even more perhaps was the tiny ost, a venomous, brillantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length, whose bite spelled an excruciating death within seconds.
Outlaw of Gor page 26
.......Further, certain pieces of his instrumentation were clearly far from primitive. For example, there was a small machine with guages and dials. In this he would place slides, containing drops of blood and urine, flecks of tissue, a strand of hair.
Captive of Gor, pg 93
The matter, I supposed, was a function of genetic subtleties, and the nature of differing gametes. The serums of stabilization effected, it seemed, the genetic codes, perhaps altering or neutralizing certain messages of deterioration, providing, I supposed, processes in which an exchange of materials could take place while tissue and cell patterns remained relatively constant. Ageing was a physical process and, as such, was susceptible to alteration by physical means. All physical processes are theoretically reversible. Entrophy itself is presumably a moment in a cosmic rhythm. The physicians of Gor, it seemed, had addressed themselves to the conquest of what had hitherto been a universal disease, called on Gor, the drying and withering disease, called on Earth, ageing. Generations of intensive research and experimentation had taken place. At last, a few physicians, drawing upon the accumulated data of hundreds of investigatiors, had achieved the breakthrough, devising the first primitive stabilization serums, later to be developed and exquisitively refined.
Slave Girl of Gor page 282
.......These credentials had been loaned to me by a fellow down whose throat I had stuffed enough Tassa powder to put a kailiauk under for several Ahn....
Players of Gor page 293
......The active ingredient in the breeding wine, or the "second wine", is a derivative of teslik.
Blood Brothers of Gor page 320
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