Comment on Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache?

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You should look up trepanning. It is the earliest form of surgery we have archaeological evidence for. Basically, intracranial pressure would be relieved by drilling small holes into the skull using flint. Something like 5% of all skulls archaeologists find have evidence of trepanning, and it’s clearly deliberate, not a war wound.

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