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This article was absolutely boring. I need another trepanning article like I need a hole in my head. Pun(s) intended. What is incredible is that these procedu
by geocrasher 5y ago
This article was absolutely boring. I need another trepanning article like I need a hole in my head.
Pun(s) intended.
What is incredible is that these procedures were done on people who lived for many years after them, by people whose supposed knowledge of medicine was dubious at best.
- Clewza313 5y agoBeing on the receiving end without general anesthesia also sounds pretty incredible: how many of us could take an hour of having a caveman scrape away at your skull with a flint, which is one of the documented methods mentioned?
- MauranKilom 5y agoI think the head wound itself would cause pain, but I'm not sure the bone scraping would cause more than some slight discomfort.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI think it's more the trauma of someone scraping at your head than anything. But, there's many ways of knocking someone out or making someone not feel or care about feeling it.