Spatula probe (?)

Spatula probe (?) University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library -- Special Collections Dept. manuscripttext eng Slender tool with a rounded end tapers gently along the solid cylindrical shaft toward the flat blade. The narrow section of the shaft before the blade is embellished with an inscribed line that makes ten turns around the shaft over a distance of 1.8 cm. The tip of the blade is flat, rounded and chipped in two places. John Stewart Milne, Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times, 1907, p. 63-68; p. 72-73. See http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/artifacts/roman_surgical/ for spatula probes and probes/curettes. Slender tool with a rounded end tapers gently along the solid cylindrical shaft toward the flat blade. The narrow section of the shaft before the blade is embellished with an inscribed line that makes ten turns around the shaft over a distance of 1.8 cm. The tip of the blade is flat, rounded and chipped in two places. Condition: Good styluses Medical instruments and apparatus Pharmacy paraphernalia Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection

Spatula probe (?)

University of South Florida -- Tampa Campus Library -- Special Collections Dept.

manuscripttext

eng

Slender tool with a rounded end tapers gently along the solid cylindrical shaft toward the flat blade. The narrow section of the shaft before the blade is embellished with an inscribed line that makes ten turns around the shaft over a distance of 1.8 cm. The tip of the blade is flat, rounded and chipped in two places.

John Stewart Milne, Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times, 1907, p. 63-68; p. 72-73. See http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/artifacts/roman_surgical/ for spatula probes and probes/curettes.

Slender tool with a rounded end tapers gently along the solid cylindrical shaft toward the flat blade. The narrow section of the shaft before the blade is embellished with an inscribed line that makes ten turns around the shaft over a distance of 1.8 cm. The tip of the blade is flat, rounded and chipped in two places.

Condition: Good

styluses

Medical instruments and apparatus

Pharmacy paraphernalia

Farid Karam M.D. Lebanon Antiquities Collection