The Medical Procedure of Trephination

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Uploaded by on May 24, 2008

This scene from Rome, the recent ancient drama, depicts the medical procedure of trephination. A hole is cut in the bone to relieve pressure. Amazingly enough, many people survived this surgery, and was in common use up until the early 19th Century.

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Uploader Comments (MooBoo1979)

  • Release evil spirits eh?

  • Yeah, but the success rate wasn't all that great...

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  • Thanks for posting this... Doing a project on the history of psychotherapy right now and trying to find film footage to show during the presentation. Everything is either too graphic or not worth showing :P Interesting, though.

  • no... head injury (hemorrhagy) i suppose... note the beared medicus, probably Greek

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