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7 Scary Surgical Instruments, Then and Now: Media

Trepans and gorgets and speculums, oh my!

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Surgery
A doctor making an incision in a patient's arm.
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Ether anesthesia
American dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton administering ether anesthesia...
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surgical tools
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gorgets
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surgical tools
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surgical tools
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amputation tools
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surgical tools
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surgical probes
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