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Old 02-08-2010, 14:10   #8
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That is really cool. The famed Roman surgeon Galen was doing surprisingly successful brain surgery roughly around 200AD. There are several collections of Roman surgical equipment and much of it would have been considered advanced in the early 18th century.
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