Roman Eye Operations

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Roman Eye Operations

Author: * Norvegicus Lupus - 19 Posts on this thread out of 440 Posts sitewide.
Date: Apr 8, 2008 - 09:49

BBC News has the article titled The Romans carried out cataract ops gives updated informations and evaluations on Roman eye operations in the perspective of Roman Britain.

"A needle is to be taken, pointed enough to penetrate, yet not too fine, and this is to be inserted straight through the two outer tunics."
Celsus, Roman author

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