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'A GANG OF DOCTORS KILLED ME' Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were skeptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners. In his “Natural History,” Pliny the Elder endeavored to speak out against the medical profession. Scalpels, needles, tweezers, probes, hooks, chisels and drills are as much part of today’s standard medical tool kit as they were during Rome’s imperial era. The most renowned set turned up in the 1770s at Pompei's so-called House of the Surgeon, which was buried under a layer of ash and pumice during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Scalpel, Forceps, Bone Drill: Modern Medicine in Ancient Rome | The New York Times