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To: AnAmericanMother
Making Holes in the Skull: Ancient Psychosurgery?

"From the Middle Ages well into the 18th century in Europe, trepanning was common as a medical procedure very much like bloodletting, i.e.; it had no medical usefulness per se. Repeated trepanning was common; for instance it is related that Prince Philip of Orange was trepanned 17 times by his physician. De La Touche, a French physician trepanned 52 times one of his patient, within a two-month period! Many physicians, from the Roman times on, also believed that the bone slabs (called rondelles) taken from trepanned skulls had therapeutic value when pulverized and mixed with other beverages given to the patients for several diseases. "

The Rondelles

15 posted on 05/11/2007 7:36:51 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Looks like I had conflated a bunch of stuff in my memory bank . . . but one Orange looks pretty much like another . . .


19 posted on 05/11/2007 8:02:28 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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