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Three Ancient Roman Bronze Medical,Surgical Instruments browse these categories for related items... All Items: Roman: Pre AD 1000: item #798181 Please refer to our stock #Z.240.A8 when inquiring.
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| Culture - Period : Roman period in the Holy Land 63 B.C. - 330 A.D Various ancient medical and surgical instruments probe ,scoop and needle Condition: Some encrustation but in excellent condition 7.10 inch , 5.80 inch and 6.80 inch Price includes: 1-Worldwide Shipping -Priority Mail 2- Export Approval from Israel Antiquities Authority . 3-Certificate of authenticity 4- Custom Lucite stand 5- Also this 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.. | |||||||||||
