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The Throat, or Trepaning, Was a Surgical Technique Used in the Stone Age
There's a long history of people putting electricity in their bottoms. The one that was particularly startling, i think, was a trepaning,. Again, still a surgical technique used to day. And yet it seems that these patients in the stone age survived. I'm not at all expert enough to so, of do the measurement on it. But there isn't aking thing that it might have been slightly safer to have brain surgery in the stone Age than the nineteenth century. That's quite surprising. A team of a mediaevalists and microbiologists worked together to basicly a recipe from a one thousand, 200 year old medical manual called bald leech book. They tested it on
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