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Doctors from Detroit Medical Center enlist the "curative powers of cured pork"

A 4-year-old girl was checked into Detroit Medical Center with a rare genetic platelet disorder that causes chronic nosebleeds. She underwent surgery and received blood transfusions, but doctors were unable to stop the bleeding, which persisted for more than a week. One of the patient's doctors, Walter Bekenky, "recalled a recommendation he had read in a surgical field manual while in the military" — use pork to stop the bleeding. The physicians purchased cured salted pork from a nearby market and cut strips to fit into the girl's nose.

The bleeding stopped immediately, and 72 hours later the little girl was home again. How the heck did bacon stop a nosebleed? 

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