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Antique Surgical Apparatus Enigma
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Rarely used sling-like tool for setting broken bones, ancient brace
  • 2. Instrument expanding passages, easing ancient examinations or surgeries
  • 3. Glass vessel for distilling cures in archaic apothecaries
  • 5. Circular instrument once used to bore into cranium for relief
  • 8. Flexible rod removing foreign bodies, punishing airways’ uninvited guests
  • 9. Retro injector, once glass, not plastic, delivering liquid remedies
  • 11. Natural suture material derived from enigmatic ovine origins
  • 12. Blade that dissected flesh with precision in old operating theaters
  • 14. Delicate mesh once draped to staunch ancient wounds
Down
  • 4. Pinching tool crucial in obstetrics and ancient surgical grips
  • 6. Vintage tube tool targeting the windpipe’s pathway
  • 7. Art and tool for ancient vein incision with sanguine intent
  • 10. Wedge-like instrument used to pry or cut bone, from Latin 'wedge'
  • 13. Method involving suction cups, extracting maladies via skin tension
  • 15. Tiny blade for bloodletting or precious drops
  • 16. Ring sometimes imprinted around wounds in old cauterization rites

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