Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Cranial surgery dates back thousands of years

Cranial surgery is tricky business, even under 21st-century conditions (think aseptic environment, specialised surgical instruments and copious amounts of pain medication both during and afterward). However, evidence shows that healers in Peru practiced trepanation — a surgical procedure that involves removing a section of the cranial vault using a hand drill or a scraping tool […]



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