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
To: SunkenCiv
PinGGG!...................
2 posted on
02/03/2015 2:28:53 PM PST by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Red Badger
Did the mummy make this suggestion verbally, or by fax?
3 posted on
02/03/2015 2:29:55 PM PST by
PghBaldy
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To: Red Badger
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.
4 posted on
02/03/2015 2:35:26 PM PST by
MCH
To: Red Badger
5 posted on
02/03/2015 2:36:31 PM PST by
dfwgator
To: Red Badger
“I wants me mummy I do” cried the museum director.
To: Red Badger
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.
8 posted on
02/03/2015 2:48:34 PM PST by
bkopto
(Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
To: Red Badger
Transgender surgery. It was originally a Chinese daddy.
9 posted on
02/03/2015 2:48:36 PM PST by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: Red Badger
“Chinese mummy suggests brain surgery was carried out 3,600 years ago...”
Those Chinese mummies are SO inscrutable! Just say it and quit “suggesting!”
10 posted on
02/03/2015 2:50:30 PM PST by
freedumb2003
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To: Red Badger
Well, rocket science also began in China, so ......
11 posted on
02/03/2015 2:51:26 PM PST by
mikrofon
(2'sday BUMP)
To: Red Badger
Maybe they did ..... but did it help?
I didn’t think so!
14 posted on
02/03/2015 3:20:57 PM PST by
Ditter
To: Red Badger
Mummy suggests? Surgery must’ve worked.
15 posted on
02/03/2015 3:24:56 PM PST by
Fester Chugabrew
(Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
To: Red Badger
A 2 inch hole in the skull would have cured any ailment known to man at the time.....
17 posted on
02/03/2015 3:37:16 PM PST by
Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: Red Badger
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.
18 posted on
02/03/2015 3:47:25 PM PST by
wildbill
(If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
To: Red Badger
Jeffrey Dahmer does the same thing and people send him to prison.
To: Red Badger
Is unsuccessful brain surgery really brain surgery, or is it just rooting around inside someone’s skull?
20 posted on
02/03/2015 3:53:10 PM PST by
WayneS
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23 posted on
02/03/2015 6:00:24 PM PST by
SWAMPSNIPER
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To: Red Badger
Taita probably did it, as part of his world travels searching for the Fountain of Youth.
26 posted on
02/04/2015 4:30:18 AM PST by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
There is a great scene in one of the Aubrey/Maturin novels where Dr. Maturin trepans a sailor who needs urgent surgery. The whole crew watches in total wonder. When the sailor recovered, the rather eccentric Doc had the complete devotion of the crew.
As the character explained it, though, it really isn't a very difficult procedure. Given the size of the hole in this poor fellow's head, however, I doubt this patient survived.
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