Trepanation is a fancy word for
drilling holes in your head. This is actually the oldest surgical procedure
known to man as humans have been intentionally knocking holes in their skulls
dating back to the time of cavemen, giving hope to anyone who's had to watch
the sitcom starring the Geico cavemen that all of them might die in a
trepanation experiment horribly gone wrong in an upcoming episode.
Historically
trepanation was most commonly used as treatment for seizures and migraines.
Surprise, surprise. Having a gaping hole drilled in your skull (usually without
anesthesia) did very little to help people's headaches or brain issues.
Trepanation was also used as an extreme form of cosmetic/experimental body
modification amongst several societies such as the Incans and Mayans. These
societies also got largely wiped out, then a few hundred years later suffered
the indignity of having an insulting Mel Gibson movie made about them, so it
didn't really work out that well.
Oh, and yes, a few brilliant
individuals still practice trepanation to this day. To give you an idea of the
oh-so-solid ground today's trepanation supporters' beliefs are built on, the biggest
modern proponent of trepanation is a "Doctor" Bart Hughes. We put
doctor in quotations marks because he never actually finished medical school.
That's right kids, you, too, can be a college dropout and yet still go onto a
career convincing people around the world to do incredibly retarded things, so
reach for those stars.
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