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Ancient medicine

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  • Estrucan bronze model of liver
  • Dental and surgical instruments on a funeral marble.
  • Assyro-Babylonian cylinder seals and sketches.
  • Cylinder seal showing Adad, god who causes colds and rheums.
  • Suppliants approaching a shrine, seeking health.
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    Assyrian seal

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    Scorpion symbol of goddess Ishkhara, circa 2400BC

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    Dental and surgical instruments on a funeral marble.

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    Plaques of the Sumerian grain goddess Ninsaba, circa 2000BC

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    Roman dental forceps found 1894

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