Pertinax
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Nice!
Gladiators really did wear some odd things
Secutor top left, provocateur top right-that is a strange one is it not? The others are murmillo variants over a 150 year period.
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That looks like it would cause brain damage with those teeth...
Do you know what the other things are?
I regret to say it is for the destruction of the foetus and extraction therof, hence its rather fearsome appearence.
The other items are , a douche (top),below the "pliers", a cauterising tool ,and to the bottom of pic some catheters.Opium spoon to side and a root of white willow for pain relief.
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I think now, that this is possibly a spatha strike to the skull.
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I see. That's very interesting (and good to know). All I could think of was the horror stories of people having gauze left in them at hospitals
I suppose the real key, besides the honey, is not suturing the wound. If it were closed up tightly, the outcome would be much different wouldn't it?
I think you are correct, indeed this is one area I can recount first hand experience in. My late Father had knee surgery when that operation was in its infancy, in essence , at that time the leg was filleted and layed more or less open from calf to shin. Thw wound was therefore a deep narrowish gash along perhaps 60-70% of the leg.This was sutured in full, it infected and supurated and required re-opening and a rather excessive use of antibiotics and blood transfusion.An open wound tends to scab and push any putrid matter vertically, the Roman method was therefore to aid nature and avoid holding pus deep in a closed wound.Although my Father's wound was very deep if the leg had been confined and bound in a few places by bandage cleaning the wound would have been easier for all concerned.
He had both knees done and walked for a couple of years before his death by the way.
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No one has mentioned that we seem to have seven seditious sadducees in the cells.
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Vitamin P. Never heard of it but would really like to know more about it.
I pressed the 'favorite' button, does that mean that when you post here I will be flagged?
Vitamin P-citrus bioflavinoids, not now strictly considered a vitamin but an enhancing antiscorbutic addittion to vit C, you should get these from just eating clean fruit and veg.
You pressed a button! Oh no! Was it red? Thats probably serious, Primus Pilus will possibly turn up at your home with a pipe wrench and adjust your plumbing.
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Honey is a sealent or does it have antibiotic properties?
Strongly so ,the cleaner the hive and the wider the range of the bees, if an admixture of propolis and a little venom has got through as well so much the better.
The principal is that no suturing is used, any pus will erupt throught the main wound site and not necrotise within the limb, each time a dressing is changed it is a little shorter , this hopefully allows tissue growth to "reach " toward the surface of the indent and to produce a good wet scab.If you are in a survival situation with a wound of this type packing with honey is no bad idea.
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Hey... I can see my house from here!!
Ha Ha! so where is the Flavian site?
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Awesome shot! I can see how a row of these could be very problematic for an enemy
Much fun
LW you asked about the life of the torsion units-The Architectus says "perhaps up to two campaign seasons if rigorously maintained, and horse hair / human hair is used" These units are hemp.LEG II take their field work seriously and the Architectus is not given to rashness.
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Apparently not. For those with the Osprey series on their booksheleves our subject is on the cover of the Legionary 58 BC AD 69
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M. Caelius. I think he was a centurion and there is a memorial to him someplace in the UK, Bath I think. And of course there's the subject of Cicero's "Pro Caelio", but that'd be a different Caelius
Well done! He was a Centurion killed in the Teuteborger disaster, this is his harness and decorations re-imagined.
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Another awesome shot!
Do you know the ranks of the men with the (front to back) crests? I would think Optio, but as far as I know there's only supposed to be one optio
Actually there are two here , the second man is the head of the artillery unit, if you check my msn blog youll see him in action.
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Looking at the position of the gladius here, it would seem rather difficult to make the draw as in the earlier picture.
Indeed it does , but, the segmental armour is so flexible that , even though it looks like the Gladius pommel is in the armpit....badda bing , your stabbed, you got blood all over your nice ivy league tunica .
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The legionary with the sword drawn has his scabbord at his belly. The one behind him has it at his hips and the next ones scabbord points towards the rear. Don't really know what to make of it.
Now , the problem here is that the nearest figure is the Centurion with his Gladius on the wrong side! However I can say that from todays display a keen Centurion makes everyone have their kit fixed at the same level on the body.The chap behind the Centurion (here ) is an auxiliary not a Legionary , so body armour type is a factor here, the segmental armour doesnt leave much choice in terms of positioning.
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The right hand looks awfully awkward. It seems to me that the hand should be turned around the other way. In that position, it seems to me that the hand would have to go towards the back and the scabbord forward. If the knuckles were pointing forward, the arm would go forward and the scabbord toward the back.
I gave it a try, but I am not at all practiced at it.
Maybe my scabbord wasn't low enough.
Oddly enough this is a "quick draw" position, the sword was out in a trice-probably the best thing for me to do is to post a vid of the draw on youtube -because its over fast! You would thinkthis would hurt or be akward but that sword is light and balanced , its actually lighter than my bowie knife !
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That's really cool. I didn't know they did this sort of thing at reinactments to
Do you know why they didn't remove the wounded man's pant leg before trying to get the bullet out? (and for that matter, why is the poor guy wearing sweatpants?
)The reasons may be twofold-1. no time 2. anatomical "operables" have rather obvious "insert/penetration" zones that are better disguised by clothing.
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That's very interesting, I thought they were larger than that.
Dude are you at this reenactment now?? If so, how are you on the internet?
Nothing mysterious, I do have a wi-fi palm top, but the event is for two days and not far from my home.
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Ah I see. I'd heard it was good for burns, but I didn't know about its uses on actual open wounds.
Ill try and get a shot of the other "repaired " leg which shows the "after" condition of such a wound.What I was unaware of was that "injections" could be given into muscle mass, with a sharp instrument cleaned in lavender water thence smeared with perhaps an opiate,
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oh I see. I thought they were permenantly in there. Did they change them after every shot?
no , thats not necessary, I will ask what the life of a torsion unit is expected to be , in terms of 1.continuous action 2. total life to destruction
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What was olive oil doing in the ropes? Was it used as a conditioner? Tension indicator? Both?
I love these things
conditioner-the torsion units were slotted in like casettes after being kept in oil.
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Nice solid looking square.
I recognize the compass, plumb bob and what looks like a scale, what are the other things?
His calculator (abacus) , most important of all his rule (collapsible), a piece of fantastically valuable lapis lazuli ( for top quality blue pigment), some dividers, and a lamp to work into the night!
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Hard to believe those could cut through bone. Of course, anything is better than the more modern way of doing it with a saw that put bone chips everywhere. And considering limbs have been successfully amputated with pocket knives, I guess those would work lol.
These are a specific design for cutting bone, but there was a saw lurking about as well.
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Oh I see. Why honey?
Because it suffocates any bacteria, and if of a high quality from a wide geographic range has the essence of many medicinal plants incorporated as well. To this day I use honey on open leg sores , especially for the diabetic.
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OOO, I'd love to have that collection. Or at least, the box it comes in
I shall name the items soon.
Roman dentistry
in Roman Gallery
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That is a bridgework denture Roman style.