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Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

by John Stewart Milne

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Milne matched the instruments named in Hippocrates, Celsus, Galen and Paul of Aegina against the bronze survivals dug from Pompeii and elsewhere, and identified them one by one: scalpels and probes, bone forceps and trephines, catheters, cauteries, the speculum — each photographed and set beside the operation it served.

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