Show Ancient Boo Book Show Surge y an Old Art The practice of rf surgery goes back b backas backas as far us liS the tI ie e a when man mau first began to hurt elf s sor or to be hurt by others others Medicine and surgery were I flourishing In thc Orient some four centuries B C In ancient books tell of too 1110 e oJ than a hundred instruments of kt st I l el d 14 varieties of bandages splints i ade of bamboo the sewing of cuts n the head and face and there w it wo i even an operation for remaking the n 11 se ise by using a piece ot of skin of the die cIle for that purpose So It would seem lint hat the Hindu had hada hada a more thorough acquaintance wIth the science than on looking back over o the faraway les es would at nt first suspect The figures of r undergoing Ing operations are arc calved ca ea on Egyptian monuments nn and am om ng n the antiquities of that people nr arcs arc such Instruments as lancets probes halves 1 nives Ives and forceps In passing It may Q a remarked that the latest need not take t credit to themselves for fOI the Invention of artificial teeth Ifor for that trIumph of the den dentists lists art Jas ms as been found In InI I mummies J I IThe The surgical sk ski 1 of the Orient seems to lo have bee bottled boWed up for a or at least I li was In no hurry to cross over o to Ei Et rope where for a along along Ito So long period the tho baiter er was the lie surgeon fhe The lI el of two of England's Eng Eng- England's England's lands land's greatest king kingS might have been saved for longer usefulness usefulness use had a n little wIsdom been shown to In n their thell treatment Henry V died of or a n u which could have ha been cured h j h the tir knife Rich Illch Richard ard and the Lion Hear Heart d met his death from a wound In tI i shoulder caused I by Y an arrow which an Ignorant sur- sur surgeon surgeon ur geon geon aggravated by wasting twitting about In Inthis this IbIs efforts to tb to remo reino e thus inducIng blood blood poison polson |