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Show cate weighing, bandages, medicines medi-cines and other ancient skull mending mend-ing tools. dian medical men repaired heads with metal plates. The high incidence of dented skulls and an occasional metal plate found among the mummies dug out of Peruvian archeological sites have long afforded a fascinating fascin-ating field of speculation on the life and times of these ancient Peruvians. Per-uvians. Bit by bit the picture has been pieced together. Eventually, enough odd looking instruments which were identified as surgical equipment were found to assemble a reasonably complete operating kit for skull fractures. The exhibition exhibi-tion includes surgical knives made of copper or a hard mineral, whale bone or deer horn instruments for extracting bone fragments from damaged heads, balances for deli- Ancients Knew About Surgery Delicate and complex surgical treatment for skull fractures was practiced by ancient Peruvians some 3,000 years ago, archeolo- gists say. An exhibition of tenth century B. C. surgical methods and equipment equip-ment used by Peruvian Indians was prepared by the Museo de An-tropologia An-tropologia y Argueologia, in Lima. Organized in honor of the Fifth National Congress of Surgeons, the display demonstrates to the modern mod-ern physicians how prehistoric In- |