A type of bronze tube (1)

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Niddah 66a mentions the use of a lead tube with its edge bent upwards to examine a woman’s uterus, which might be a speculum, but it is also possible that the instrument mentioned here is the type of bronze tube used in Akkadian medicine, which was inserted into the urethra in order to blow materia medica into the relevant organs to treat ‘kidney disease’.

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Babylonian Talmud, Niddah 66a

Bibliography

Mark Geller

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