If you ’re work to get a hole drilled into your skull , you do n’t want to habituate just any tool . ( Though most of us would ward off the skull - drilling in the first place . ) One investigator used four different instruments on a single skull to compare Neolithic trepanation methods .
Photo fromScience Museum , London .
Dr. Thomas Wilson Parry ( 1866 - 1945 ) possess this particular skull , which he used to do practical enquiry on trepanation . He execute just about 50 trepanation experiments on the skull of the more and less recent at rest , using in this guinea pig a shark ’s tooth , a flint - pointed bow drill , a Flint River scraper , and obsidian to achieve the variety of hole . Parry published Trephination of the Living Human Skull in Prehistoric Times in 1923 , but far more comical is his 1918 ballad about the practice session :
‘ This patient must be now trephined , Let all the others go;To - morrow when the sunshine is upMy thaumaturgy I ’ll them show . ’
Two men the epileptic boreAnd laid him on a trunk , And when the wretch was amount roundHe read some sign of funk .
No questions put they to the man;The doctor cleared his throat , Then bringing flints from out his hut , Took off his hairy pelage .
A crowd had gather all around , To keep an eye on the bloody deed;Their oddment was stirredTo see his devil dislodge .
With sharp Flint River flake the surgeon madeA cruciform incision;The blood did spurt , the injury it hurt , The crowd laughed in ridicule .
The two assistants press the flapsTo contain the pedigree from running;The Medicine - Man did scheme and program , He was so full of slyness .
He scraped the pericranium , Until the skull was bare;Then scratched the osseous tissue with a sharp Lucy Stone , It did not count where .
He scrap that off-white and scratched and scraped — The cacography made a rut , The groove a basin - like oval . The patient did not move .
The fact was this , when he came roundSo rotten did he feel , He faint when he launch himselfThe centre of such zeal .
The hollow before long became a hole,‘Twas all but through the off-white , His diploë , you well might see , But still he made no groan .
The inner tabular array only nowProtected his gentle brain , One final shaft and he did makeThat hole out a window - pane .
The devil stirred within his skullAnd , with a frightful yell , Escaped from out its prison - houseTo seek its own in hell .
As the poem indicate , some people believe that trepanation would release evil spirit , although historicallymany physicians have claim that the function has some aesculapian benefit . you could see more pic of this particular skull and its numerous holes at the Science Museum .
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Human skull prove different methods of trephination , Canary Islands , 1871 - 1930[Science Museum viaWe Are Star Stuff ]
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