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Anthropology

Warpy

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1. The surgery might have been done for seizure or psychiatric illness

Reply to wnylib (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2022, 11:54 PM

Mar 2022

but I find the most logical reason for it frequent and lengthy migraine headaches.

That's about the only thing that would have let me allow someone to chisel a hole in my skull without anesthesia.

There must have been some sort of cure rate since they kept at it for a very long time.

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Stone age brain surgery [View all] wnylib Mar 2022 OP

The surgery might have been done for seizure or psychiatric illness Warpy Mar 2022 #1

Anesthesia as we know it did not exist, wnylib Mar 2022 #2

Not all of them got markedly sicker Warpy Mar 2022 #3

The church opposed scientific developments wnylib Mar 2022 #4

Guy de Chauliac wrote what could be called the first modern medical text Warpy Mar 2022 #5

Yes, the church did obstruct the dissection wnylib Mar 2022 #6

From the above linked article: wnylib Mar 2022 #7