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I actually have a set of bronze Roman medical tools dated to around 100 AD which I’ve used occasionally for small projects (they include scrapers, tweezers, pokers, etc.)…so yes, there are such things. 😊

I acquired them almost 40 years ago from a Dutch antiquarian dealer. But they were undoubtedly recovered from an ancient physician’s grave site, and therefore not in continuous use across the millennia…which I think was more to your point.

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Unfortunate choice of name, which raises the concern about being able to tell it apart from the alternative. ;-)

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