"[In Ancient Rome], a lot of medical tools ... as well as tools to extract bladder and kidney stones. Other instruments indicate that cataract surgery, or the removal of a person's cloudy eye ...

Cataract surgery is one of the oldest surgical procedures known, first documented in the fifth century BC. [12] In ancient times ... so that a sharp fine instrument was inserted into the eye ...

Medical treatment in ancient Rome ... including brain and eye surgery. Roman surgeons employed many tools that bear a remarkable resemblance to some of our current-day instruments.