Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman TimesMilne, John Stewart
History
Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times
Milne, John Stewart
Surgery -- History; Surgical instruments and apparatus
In March, 1846, Quaranta made a communication to the same Society
entitled 'Osservazioni sopra nu forcipe Pompeiano', in which he expressed
a different opinion from that held by Vulpes, and pointed out that the
forceps described by the latter in his first communication was found in
Pompeii. This is the famous forceps which is always referred to as the
'Pompeian Forceps'.
These valuable papers of Vulpes and Quaranta were published in vol. vii of
the _Memorie della Regale Academia Ercolanese di Archeologia_. These
articles are profusely illustrated. In 1847 Vulpes gathered these papers
together, and with some slight alterations published them under the title
of 'Illustrazione di tutti gli instrumenti chirurgici scavati in Ercolano
e in Pompeii'.
At the time when Vulpes wrote there were in the Museum among other things
45 probes of various kinds, upwards of 90 forceps, 13 bleeding-cups of
bronze, and 16 scalpels.
VACHER.--Les instruments de chirurgie à Herculanum et Pompeï. (_Gazette
Médicale_, 1867, xxii. pp. 491-94.)
SCOUTETTEN.--Histoire des instruments de chirurgie trouvés à Herculanum et
à Pompeï. (_France Médicale_, Paris, 1867, xiv. p. 483.)
OVERBECK.--Pompeji, 1884, p. 461.
Museo Borbonico, Vol. xiv. Pl. 35, Vol. xv. Pl. 23.
CECI.--Piccoli bronzi del Museo Nazionale di Napoli.
NEUGEBAUER.--Warsaw Medical Transactions, 1882.
NEUGEBAUER.--Über Pincetten alter Völker. (Korrespondenzblatt der
Deutschen Anthropologischen Gesellschaft, 1884, No. 11.)
HAESER.--Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin, 1875, p. 499.
GUHL and KOHNER.--Life of the Greeks and Romans, 1862, p. 296.
MONACO.--Guide Général du Musée National de Naples. (Naples, 1900.)
MONACO.--Les monuments du Musée National de Naples.
MONACO.--Specimens of domestic articles from the Naples Museum (Naples,
n.d.).
LINDENSCHMIDT.--Die Altertümer unserer heidnischen Vorzeit, Bd. iv. Heft
iii.
Anzeiger für schweizerische Geschichte and Altertumskunde, Jahrgang 1857,
No. 3.
ULRICH.--Jahrbücher des Vereins für Altertumsfreunde in den Rheinländen,
xiv. 1849.
ULRICH.--Catalogue of the Collection of the Antiquarian Society of Zürich
(now placed in the Landesmuseum). Pt. I. Roman and Pre-Roman, by R.
Ulrich, Conservator. (Published by Ulrich & Co., 1890, p. 140, pl. 1037.)
BRUNNER.--Die Spuren der römischen Aerzte auf dem Boden der Schweiz.
(Zürich, 1894.)
ANONYMOUS.--Un hôpital militaire romain. Zürich. (A sketchy pamphlet
published as an advertisement by the town of Baden.)
Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft, Zürich.--References of
interest occur in the following volumes: vol. vii, Meyer, Geschichte der
XI. und XXI. Legion; vol. ix, Mommsen, Die Schweiz in römischer Zeit (15);
vol. xii, Die römischen Ansiedelungen in der Ostschweiz (19. M. B.); vol.
xiv, Bochat, Recherches sur les antiquités d'Yverdon; vol. xvi, Römische
Alterthümer aus Vindonissa; Römische Ansiedelungen in der Ostschweiz, ii;
vol. xvi, Bursian, Aventicum Helvetiorum, Mosaikbild von Orbe.
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