trepanation

[J Strobridge]

Nick English writes:

> Sorry I asked!

It was quite common at various periods of history - there's a skull from
the Inca or Aztec period on display somewhere that has a semi precious
stone plugging a trepanation hole - and the bone has grown around it so
the guy must have survived a while.

jill

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