specillum

The populace would watch the man put on his "specillum," and the idea was everywhere abroad that the magic glasses gave an ability to read; and that anybody who was inspired by angels, or devils, who could get hold of spectacles, could at once read from a book.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885

I recommend seven or eight small pieces of iron to be prepared, a fathom in size, in thickness like a thick specillum, and bent at the extremity, and a broad piece should be on the extremity, like a small obolus.

On Hemorrhoids 2007

But if you have not charge of the treatment from the first, but undertake it from another after a time, you must saw the bone at once down to the meninx with a serrated trepan, and in doing so must frequently take out the trepan and examine with a sound (specillum), and otherwise along the tract of the instrument.

On Injuries Of The Head 2007

When you have removed the blood, you must not press hard upon the part with the specillum, lest you produce contusion.

On Ulcers 2007

Celsus is realized, as, for instance, in the specillum, or probe, which is concave on one side and flat on the other; the scalper excisorius, in the shape of a lancet-point on one side and of a mallet on the other; a hook and forceps, used in obstetrical practice.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

a director (specillum) if possible, at the proper time, so as to admit a free discharge of the matter, and then the proper treatment is to be applied as may be needed.

On Ulcers 2007