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Ancient Roman Bronze Medical , Surgical Instruments. browse these categories for related items... All Items: Roman: Pre AD 1000: item #784829 Please refer to our stock #Z.240 a.11 when inquiring.
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| Five Ancient Roman Bronze Medical , Surgical Instruments. 100 - 300 AD. Found in the Holy Land Price includes: Packing, shipping and handling, insurance, Certificate of Authenticity, export approval from the Antiquities Authority in Israel. And Plexiglas stand, please allow 1 week for delivery. WHEN YOU PURCHASE THIS SET YOU WILL ALSO RECEIVE A FREE BOOK : { Illness and Healing in Ancient Times } Almost every medical writer mentions the spathomele. It consists of a long shaft with an olivary point at one end and a spatula at the other. It was a pharmaceutical rather than a strictly surgical instrument. The olive end was used for stirring medicaments, the spatula for spreading them on the affected part. The spathomele was used by painters for preparing and mixing their colors. The very large numbers in which they are found would indicate that their use was not confined to medical men. The scope of the cyathiscomele in medical art is evidently, like the flat spathomele, to act occasionally as a sound, but mainly to mix, measure and apply medicaments. Some are adapted for use as curettes. The large numbers in which this instrument occurs would itself indicate that it was used for lay as well as medical purposes. | ||||||
