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'buildings which are identified as 

 drug stores by the sign paint ing on 

 the walls, and by the bottles and 

 jars of oils, and medicines which 

 have been found in th^ ruins. It is 

 estimated that seven thousand peo- 

 ple inhabited that portion of the 

 city now uncovered, and consider- 

 ing the limited pharmacopea of 

 of that day, three drug stores 

 would indicate that the drug busi- 

 ness was somewhat overdone in 

 Pompeii. There was a large fan- 

 tastic sign painted on the walls of 

 .a drug store which faces a street 

 called Vagabond street. Below 

 the sign is a warning to the loafers 

 on the street it reads "this is no 

 place for vagabond*, be (tone icith 

 you!" 



of the Pagans. 



Museum of Naples to see the instru- 

 ments for the diagnosis and treat- 

 ment of diseases of women that have 

 been discovered in the buried city. 

 The accompaning cut represents 

 two vaginal specula, which, though 

 somewhat complicated and difficult 

 to manipulate, are essentially 

 like the tri valve specula now used. 

 Certain it is that at least a century 

 before Chrst these instruments 

 were used for vaginal inspection, 

 though there are no records to show 

 that anything definite was known 

 of the nature of the diseases, nor 

 do we know that any rational treat- 

 ment was employed. Along with 

 these specula were found instru- 

 ments closely resembling the cur- 

 rette and probably used for that 

 purpose though it is not likely that 

 they were employed in the treat- 

 ment of uterine diseases. 



We speak of Gynecolo.sry as a 

 modern science, and this is in great 



SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS DUG FROM THE KUIXS OF POMfEII 



part true; but it will doubtless be a AH old Hospital in Rome. 



surprise to the gynecologist who On the banks of the Tiber near 

 visits Pompeii and the National the Cathedral of St. Peter stands 



