By Robert Arnott, Stanley Finger, Chris Smith
ISBN-10: 0203970942
ISBN-13: 9780203970942
ISBN-10: 9026519230
ISBN-13: 9789026519239
This quantity will examine the background of trepanation, the identity of skulls, the instruments used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation could have been played many millions of years in the past.
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City of Washington, Smithsonian Institution. Squier F (1939): A Collection of Books by Ephraim George Squier. New York, Frank Squier Paper Co. Stewart TD (1958): Stone Age skull surgery: A general review with emphasis on the New World. Ann Rep Smithsonian Inst: 469–491. Verano JW (1997): La trepanación tratamiento terapéutico para fracturas craneales en el antiguo Perú. Estud Anthrop Biol 8: 65–81. EPHRAIM GEORGE SQUIER’S PERUVIAN SKULL 19 Chapter 2 On the Birth of Trepanation: the Thoughts of Paul Broca and Victor Horsley STANLEY FINGER1,* AND WILLIAM T.
530). Thus, although some observers looked upon the skull as a clear case of pre-Columbian trepanning, others remained skeptical. Because there was not uniform agreement about the skull, and perhaps also because Squier also wanted to enhance his own fame, he now decided to solicit Broca’s opinion. ON THE BIRTH OF TREPANATION 23 Figure 3. An “irregular” amulet from the Prunières collection with a hole for suspending it from a cord (see Broca, 1877a, p. 200). Broca had not only founded the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris in 1859, but was considered by many to be the leading anthropologist in the world, as well as an established authority on the brain and its pathology.
Brit Med J 2: 670–675. Horsley V (1887a): A note on the means of topographical diagnosis of focal disease affecting the so-called motor region of the cerebral cortex. Am J Med Sci 96: 342–369. Horsley V (1887b): Brain surgery in the Stone Age. Brit Med J 1: 582–587.