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mrl1970:
Skeleton may show ancient brain surgery


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23581918/

Craig:
Scientist (and religious scholars) never cease to amaze me.  Find a skeleton with a hole in the skull and conclude it was surgery performed 1800 years ago.  I guess there is no chance that someone clubbed her with a sword, or something fell on her head, or any of a hundred ways a hole could end up in a skull.

 ???
Craig

Beloved:
Hard to fully understand what was going on in  te minds of primitive folk, they did not even know what Brain was.

here is a site about trephining, the term to describe these holes, the thought was pressure relief, perhaps make a opening to let the evil spit out. I have seen some of these ancient instruments. I doubt that many were conscious during the procedure. They can tell that some people survived because the bone was healed.

http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/trepan.htm

beloved

Craig:

--- Quote ---perhaps make a opening to let the evil spit out
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That "evil spit" is baaaaaad stuff ;) ;D

Craig

Deborah-Leigh:
Is that where the saying....you must have a hole in the head... ;D

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