The history of trepanation. An utterly amazing post!
And, Bioephemera posted an appropriate illustration to go with it....
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Trepanation is a procedure where a hole is drilled into the skull, exposing the dura mater and brain for either medical (releif of pressure) or mystical (supposed heightened consciousness)purposes.
off topic, but mr. wizard died tuesday...
Still OT: Wow, he died! I thought about him last week, when people were covering the paper folding myth. He did an episode on that - I'm sad to say that he bought into the myth though. I actually thought he was already dead. :-(
No He is NOT dead. He will live forever in our hearts!