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Medical Implements
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Medical Instruments
Date: before 79 AD.
Place: Pompeii, Italy
Photographed at the Naples National Archeological Museum, Naples, Italy.
Medical Instruments
Date: before 79 AD.
Place: Pompeii, Italy
Photographed at the Naples National Archeological Museum, Naples, Italy.
Medical Instruments
Date: before 79 AD.
Place: Pompeii, Italy
Photographed at the Naples National Archeological Museum, Naples, Italy.
Medical Instruments
No details
Photographed at the National Archeological Museum of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Medical Instruments
Date: Unknown (by Museum) Place: Roman ? where
Photographed at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. |
Medical Instruments
Date: Unknown (by Museum)
Place: Roman ? where
Photographed at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Medical Instruments
Date: Roman Period
Place: Not known (by Museum)
Photographed at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Four Iron Surgical Knives
Date: c. 1st century AD.
Place: Near Smith’s Warf, London, England
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Roman Medical Instruments
Date: 1st – 2nd century AD.
Place: various locations, Southern England
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Bronze Bone Saw
Date: 1st – 3rd century AD.
Place: Probably France
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Medical Instruments
Date: 1st Century AD.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
All Instruments in these images (next 6) were found together
Medical Forceps
Date: 1st Century AD.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Medical Scoops and Spoons
Date: 1st Century AD.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Medical Catheters
Date: 1st Century AD.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Rectal Speculum
Date: 1st Century AD.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Scalpel Handles
Date: 1st Century AD.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
(much of Iron blades has corroded away)
Bronze Scalpels (and Hatchet)
Date: Unknown, Roman period
Place: Sontheim, Germany
Photographed at the Limesmuseum, Aalen, Germany.