Paul (VI. lxii), describing the radical cure of hernia, says:
‘Wherefore having heated ten or twelve cauteries shaped like the Greek letter Γ (γαμμοειδῶν καυτήρων) and two cautery knives, we must first burn the scrotum through with the Γ-shaped ones, &c.’
Obol Cautery.
In the treatise on haemorrhoids (iii. 340) Hippocrates says:
‘I order, therefore, seven or eight instruments to be prepared, a palm long, and the thickness of a thick specillum, bent towards the end and flattened on the point like a small obol’ (ὡς ἐπὶ ὀβολοῦ μικροῦ).
Lunated Cautery.
Greek, μηνοειδὲς καυτήριον.
Paul says in cases of sloughing of the prepuce we must cut it off, and if there be haemorrhage we must use lunated cauteries (μηνοειδέσι καυτηρίοις). They both stop the haemorrhage and prevent the spreading of the sore (VI. lvii).
Nail, Tile and Button Cautery.
Treating of bubonocele, Paul says (VI. lxvi):