Cauterizing can be done with a cautery unit or an argon laser. Procedures like electric cautery, chemical cautery and cryotherapy are also done. Early endoscopic therapy can help to stop bleeding by using cautery, endoclip, or epinephrine injection. It can be coagulated with the cautery. Electrocautery is available as an alternative to laser cautery. He was subjected to the usual quackery, cautery and bleeding. When diet no longer promoted health, drugs, phlebotomy, cautery, or surgery were used. There were doctors, midwives and practical doctors, who were practicing venesection, cautery, purging, and sniffing. Hemostasis is achieved with either cautery or digital pressure. The Lusignians used affumications, herbs, astrology, venesections, cautery, purging, and pilgrimages to the saints. Cautery can also mean the branding of a human, either recreational or forced.