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Greek surgical equipment

Medicine in the ancient world. These were tools used by doctors during the examination, operation and treatment of patients: forceps for removing hairs (8th – 6th c. BC), bleeding cups (500 – 450 BC). Most instruments on this photograph however date in the Roman period (2nd – 7th c. AD).

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Uploaded on January 12, 2010
Taken on October 7, 2008