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How do they survive the trepanation? How does one live with a hole in the head for a few years?
by haecceity 6y ago
How do they survive the trepanation? How does one live with a hole in the head for a few years?
- simonh 6y agoThe scalp is cut in a crescent shape and peeled open for the operation, and then folded back down and sewn back in place, so the hole is covered by the scalp.
- plerpin 6y agoAieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
- dguaraglia 6y agoApparently it's not as bad as you'd think. I can't recall her name right now, but Michael Pollan talks about a British socialite that trepanated her own skull in his book 'How to change your mind'. Apparently she did that and went straight to a party, and she's alive to this day. I think there's even a video of her doing it online. The body's amazing at recovering from all kinds of stuff.
- quotz 6y agoAmanda Feilding, shes a royal too. She founded an institute for psychedelic research as well