Maser cauterization

Maser cauterization was a medical procedure in use by the time of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. It partially shared its name with masers, a type of energy weapon similar to lasers. In 20 BBY, the Republic's Major N'do Maetrecis contracted an unknown disease from the swamps of the planet Drongar after receiving a heart transplant from Republic Mobile Surgical Unit personnel. Medical staff tried the cauterization technique and other proposed solutions to cure him, though each was unsuccessful and the officer's state deteriorated. Maetrecis ultimately only recovered after Doctor Zan Yant began giving him illegal dosages of the healing plant bota, which the surgeon Jos Vondar scolded his colleague for.

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