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How Trepanation Worked
50 minutes Posted Aug 31, 2021 at 9:00 am.
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One of the oldest medical procedures in human history is also one of the riskiest. For thousands of years humans carried a type of proto brain surgery where a hole would be cut into the skull. And they were pretty good at it too.

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