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Magnets in ancient Rome?
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• Footage courtesy: scholagladiatoria — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvMUT2XnOy0

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00:00Roman legionaries bleed out on the battlefield as jagged iron arrowheads shred muscle fibers.
00:06Military medics need to extract deep metal shrapnel before deadly infections destroy the wounded soldier.
00:13Standard logic assumes doctors sliced blindly into deep tissue,
00:17but the real method completely bypassed messy incisions.
00:21While Romans valued natural lodestones,
00:24medical lore of antiquity falsely claimed magnets could extract embedded iron weapons.
00:30Roman field surgeons instead relied on clean steel probes and specialized forceps to locate iron arrowheads,
00:37minimizing further tissue damage.
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