Posted on 02/03/2015 2:28:29 PM PST by Red Badger
A skull that's more than three and a half millennia old has revealed signs of an early form of brain surgery.
The perforated skull belongs to a mummified woman found in the Xiaohe tomb in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Experts said that the hole, which measures around 2 inches (50mm) in diameter, was most likely an early form of craniotomy.
A craniotomy involves temporarily removing a 'flap' of bone from the skull to give surgeons access to the brain.
The amount of skull removed depends on the type of surgery being performed, and the flap is later replaced using screws.
It may have also been a form of trepanation, which involves the removal of a piece of bone from the skull.
This procedure has been performed since prehistoric times, and cave paintings indicate that ancient people believed the practice would cure epileptic seizures, headaches and mental disorders.
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The perforated skull (pictured) was discovered as part of a mummified body of a woman in the 'Little River' Xiaohe tomb complex. Experts said that the hole, measuring around 2 inches (50mm) in diameter, was most likely an early form of craniotomy - a procedure that involves removing bone to get access to the brain
PinGGG!...................
Did the mummy make this suggestion verbally, or by fax?
Brain “surgery” seems like a stretch. More likely she was crazy, and the local medicine man drilled a hole in her head to let the demons out.
Cannibalism?
“I wants me mummy I do” cried the museum director.
Looking at the location of that hole, the “brain surgeon” would probably have bagged the superior sagittal sinus, leading to copious bleeding. Doubt that this patient survived.
Transgender surgery. It was originally a Chinese daddy.
“Chinese mummy suggests brain surgery was carried out 3,600 years ago...”
Those Chinese mummies are SO inscrutable! Just say it and quit “suggesting!”
Well, rocket science also began in China, so ......
“My brain hurts!”
Maybe they did ..... but did it help?
I didn’t think so!
Mummy suggests? Surgery must’ve worked.
I’ve forgotten, but how long ago did the Egyptians do that?
A 2 inch hole in the skull would have cured any ailment known to man at the time.....
Same sort of archeological evidence has been found around Stonehenge, Egypt, and in the Andes.
For whatever reason, the ancients knew enough to perform surgical operations on the skulls and the patients survived long enough for the bone to heal.
I’m guessing they were helped/taught by Alien Physicians Without Borders.
Jeffrey Dahmer does the same thing and people send him to prison.
Is unsuccessful brain surgery really brain surgery, or is it just rooting around inside someone’s skull?
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