Ambroise Pare, Arrowhead Extractors, 1584
Just as bullets required special extractors, so too did arrowheads and darts. These implements, both plain and ornate, were designed for extracting the point when the shaft was no longer in place. Pare warns his fellow surgeons to avoid damaging veins and arteries, nerves and tendons when withdrawing a point, hence the need to precisely clamp the point with the surgeon's tool. The 1585 edition of Pare's Oeuvres (Collected Works) represents the final summary of his life's work. It has over twelve hundred folio pages, with nearly 400 illustrations drawing upon a lifetime of practice. Four editions of the Oeuvres were published during his lifetime, and this is the last and the most complete. Often his descriptions of difficult cases end with the same simple sentence, I treated him, but God cured him. Ambroise Pare (1510 - December 20, 1590) was a French surgeon, anatomist, inventor and one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology
