Posts tagged national museum of medicine
Pompeii had preserved Roman medical tools. Some of them were nearly the same as what were used over 1800 years later.
Left: Reproductions of Pompeii surgical instruments at National Museum of Medicine
Right: Cours d’Operations de Chirurgie. M. Dionis, 1757.
“Morbi corneae et sclereticae.”
Ball Ophthalmology Collection at the National Museum of Medicine
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