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The Greco-Roman instruments which I have shown on the contrary 
can no longer be called great curiosities. Besides at Herculanum and 
Pompeji there have later been found many similar ones in Switzerland, 
France and England, as well as in the Rhine and Danube countries. ‘The 
»millimeter scale« must however by very rare. I have not found a single 
measure scale, still less so any with so fine divisions, on the hundreds of 
illustrations of Greco-Roman surgical instruments in Denefte, Gurlt, Milne 
and Vedrenes, which I have examined. It is true, such a one on account 
of the patina layer might easily escape attention. 
My explanation. of the repeated appearance of the Roman netting 
needle among the Greco-Roman surgical instruments may, I believe, be 
accepted as a slight increase in our knowledge of medical archæology. 
