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Antique Healing Apparatus Cryptogram is a hard crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Antique Healing Apparatus Cryptogram
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Across
- 1. Early acoustic tool, now evolved, but once novel (11)
- 2. Device for physical treatment, predating modern machines (10)
- 3. Surgical removal instrument used before anesthesia (11)
- 4. Obsolete cautery instrument, burning with no shame (11)
- 5. Skin scraping tool lost to dermatological time (12)
- 9. Spittoon once found near the dentist’s chair (8)
- 11. Instrument used to hold incisions apart in old times (9)
- 12. Ancient slicer, misspelled in battle? (6)
- 14. A knife to dissect, no longer in daily use (8)
- 15. Vaginal support from antiquity, now replaced (7)
Down
- 6. Stone crusher's archaic contraption for kidney woes (12)
- 7. Expanding urethral probe from bygone urology (11)
- 8. Manual breast pump, archaic medical suction (7)
- 10. Hollow tube, once less sanitary, now improved (8)
- 13. Ancient blade for bloodletting, now out of vogue (10)
- 16. Circular skull cutter once prized by surgeons (8)
- 17. Primitive skull drill—think ‘pirate’s headgear’ (6)
- 18. Injection tool, primitively glass and metal (7)
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