A surgeon extracting guinea worms from a patient’s leg by winding it onto a stick. From a work by the German surgeon Georg Hieronymus Welsch published in 1674, which was heavily influenced by Arabic medical texts - ThreadSky

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A surgeon extracting guinea worms from a patient’s leg by winding it onto a stick. From a work by the German surgeon Georg Hieronymus Welsch published in 1674, which was heavily influenced by Arabic medical texts