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1) The tools of ancient doctors and surgeons often bear an astonishing resemblance to those still used by medical experts today. Let's look at some Roman surgical equipment and compare them to today's equivalent. (Squeamish beware!)
First up, some trusty surgical scalpels...
First up, some trusty surgical scalpels...
2) Medical spatulas and spoon probes (specillum), the most common type of medical tool recovered from Roman times.
3) Surgical shears for cutting body tissues.
1. @WHO @TheLancet My thought about #Ibuprofen is its tendency to thin blood. Imagine an 80 year old coughing hard for two weeks. Like going a round of boxing. Internal bleeds add up and thinner makes it unstoppable. Would you recommend it pre-op? I don't think so.
2. It's not the noninflammatory NSAID mechanism. Just the bleeding side-effect that triggers all the d-dimer elevations. Look at the charts if they had work up at admission. Ask family. I think aspirin or heparin would be the same. Maybe a lot worse. @cnn @MSNBC @DefenseIntel
3. We home hospiced my 94 year-old mother. Their blood vessels are frail. #NotADoctor Just son who observed someone die of old age.
