bathing illustrations and ritual purification

[Koen G]

Vviews, impressive that you found such parallels. And seasonally appropriate ones at that,  since the patients appear to be holding easter eggs. I agree with david however that forceps were invented later. Also, nude eye surgery? 

I once read one of Diane's comments from which I kind of let my imagination run wild and imagined the bathing ladies as representing geopolitical entities. In this case, the one in the water could be a naval force seeking to expand its territory, hence the map measuring tool. The punch to the eye would be the other force repelling the attack from the land.

Not based on much proof, but it does open up a whole new way of thinking