Trepanation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trepanation (also known as trepanning , trephination , trephining or making a burr hole ) is a medical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, thus exposing t...
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The medical community argues against it . . . media has used it as a shock story . . . but it's a procedure that has been around for ages, and some people believe it to be effective: trepanation. The desire to increase one's conciousness permanently has led some brave people to undergo this procedure.
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The International Trepanation Advocacy Group is dedicated to accumulating the largest knowledge base of information about trepanation ever before assembled. ... Skull trepanation has usually been considered a strange oddity by archeologists, anthropologists and neuroscientists. With nearly complete unanimity those...
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Trepanation is the process of cutting a hole in the skull. According to John Verano, a professor of anthropology at Tulane University, trepanation is the oldest surgical practice and is still performed ceremonially by some African tribes.
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Drill bit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Drill bits are cutting tools used to create cylindrical holes. Bits are held in a tool called a drill, which rotates them and provides torque and axial force to create the hole. Specialized bits are ...
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Article on trepanation from Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions by John Michell. ... The founder of the trepanation movement is a Dutch savant, Dr Bart Hughes. In 1962 he made a discovery which his followers proclaim as the most significant in modern times. One's state and degree of consciousness, he realized,
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Yahoo! reviewed these sites and found them related to Alternative Medicine > Trepanation ... Directory > Health > Alternative Medicine > Trepanation...
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There is a great deal of speculation about why ancient civilizations used trepanation, as it was - and still is - carried out in the absence of head trauma. However, it is almost certain that all those who used it did so because they somehow linked the brain with behaviour.
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