6. Prehistoric neurosurgical practice

Can you imagine what the first form of neurosurgical practice looked like? Neurosurgical practices without anesthesia, modern surgical instruments and antibiotics…Do you wonder how many patients survived such procedures? In display case number 35, there is a skull, a seemingly ordinary archaeological find. Would your opinion change if you learned...

  • Can you imagine what the first form of neurosurgical practice looked like? Neurosurgical practices without anesthesia, modern surgical instruments and antibiotics…Do you wonder how many patients survived such procedures?
  • In display case number 35, there is a skull, a seemingly ordinary archaeological find. Would your opinion change if you learned that this skull bears traces of the first form of neurosurgical practice – trepanation?

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