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Reply #15 - May 6th, 2006 at 9:25pm
 
The picture shown shows a physician using a scalpel to enlarge a wound so that a foreign body (arrowhead, glandes) etc could be more easily withdrawn with a forceps and probe. The technique is pretty much the same today. Better anesthesia though. Grin
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Reply #16 - May 6th, 2006 at 9:44pm
 
back then, the most practiced method was getting them drunk, then (my own theory: ) maybe blind folding them so they wouldn't know what was happening.
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Reply #17 - May 6th, 2006 at 9:47pm
 
Give em a stick to bite on Shocked
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Reply #18 - May 7th, 2006 at 11:53am
 
The forceps picture is very similar to one I saw when I lived in Sicily. The one in the mosaic I saw had a curved top, that fit over the top of the glande. The bottom was used to push the glande against this.
  Failing that, we go back to Celsus who said that if the glande is wedged into the bone and can't be pulled out, then cut to where the bone is, and saw out a triangular section of the bone where the glande is.
    Wonder what his fee was for that.
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Reply #19 - May 7th, 2006 at 6:43pm
 
From Voellings article (translation from German):

"In these cases the wound should be opened and the intruded object should be removed with tweezers the same way it came in."

Celsus 7, 5, 4

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Reply #20 - May 7th, 2006 at 8:41pm
 
I think you had to pay them to get them to stop. Tongue
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