Four methods of trepanation demonstrated on a single human skull Dr. Thomas Wilson Parry (1866-1945)
Four methods of trepanation demonstrated on a single human skullDr. Thomas Wilson Parry (1866-1945) owned this particular skull, which he used to perform practical research on trepanation. He performed roughly 50 trepanation experiments on the skulls of the more and less recent deceased, using in this case a shark’s tooth, a flint-pointed bow drill, a flint scraper, and obsidian to achieve the variety of holes. Parry published Trephination of the Living Human Skull in Prehistoric Times in 1923, and an amusing ballad about the practice in 1918.Read more here. -- source link
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