Trephination of Individual 1. A-B: Magnified edges of the trephination, each with a 2 mm scale bar. Images captured with a Leica EZ4D stereo microscope. C: All four edges of the trephination, scale ...

What can we learn from once-popular surgical procedures that have subsequently been abandoned? How did they get started, and what caused them to be discarded? This report provides examples of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered the remains of a man from the Bronze Age who had a rare brain surgery. The finding reveals the earliest ...

CNN — When archaeologists uncovered the burial site of two brothers who lived during the 15th century BC in Israel, they were surprised to discover that one of them had brain surgery shortly before he ...

Archaeologists have uncovered early evidence of brain surgery after the discovery of two brothers buried beneath the floor of a late Late Bronze Age-era building. Trephination is the surgical ...

Why did ancient peoples cut holes in their heads? The Woman of Pritschoena died around 4,500 years ago in what's now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Her skeleton was discovered in 1913 by a local ...

Archaeologists discovered the remains of a man from the Bronze Age who had a rare brain surgery. The finding reveals the earliest example of trephination in the ancient Near East, scientists said. The ...

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From the early 1900s until well past the middle of the 20th century, the standard treatment for breast cancer was radical mastectomy, which was first performed in 1882 by William Halsted, a professor ...