"[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 ...

Other instruments indicate that cataract surgery, or the removal of a ... He suggested that the ancient doctor Galen, who lived from around A.D. 129 to 216 and resided in nearby Pergamon, may ...

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 ...

Perhaps most surprisingly of all is that the Romans - and others from ancient times ... details how various medical instruments found in Britain indicate that the Romans carried out other advanced ...

Several illustrations on the inside of Egyptian temples and tombs depict surgical instruments ... clear the cataract. The procedure was first described by Maharshi Sushruta, an ancient Indian ...

"The wider application of 3D imaging to the rich collections of ancient Roman (and Greek) surgical instruments held in museums around the world would have substantial benefits in terms of greater ...

Medical remedies have improved since those times — no more smashed snails, salt-cured weasel flesh or ashes of cremated dogs’ heads — but surgical instruments have changed surprisingly little.