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Estrucan bronze model of liver

El-Lazien in situ: clamp used during Kordajan circumcision. Anglo Egyptian, Sudan. 

Mongol on Jurkie Shaman with drum, Central Asia

Man suffering from umbilical hernia, Egypt

An Ekkpe or Egbo; Ejagham Ekoi, South of Nigeria

Roman altar with Greek inscription found at Chester in 1851

Series of Graeco-Roman surgical and toilet instruments found at Thebes. In the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Ex-hamonic Collection

Greco-Roman physician in his study, plaster cast in W.H.M.M.

Ancient Roman and Greek surgical instruments (A-G):

Plaque in tomb relief showing mother and child, Ostia, 50 A.D

Egyptian tombs of the Nobles, The Mortuary Chapel of Ramose

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Egyptian tombs of the Nobles, The Mortuary Chapel of Ramose

Series of Graeco-Roman surgical and toilet instruments found at Thebes. In the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Ex-hamonic Collection

Plaque in tomb relief showing mother and child, Ostia, 50 A.D

Roman altar with Greek inscription found at Chester in 1851

Estrucan bronze model of liver