What's the drill?

It's a surgical procedure in which a hole in the skull is dug using a hand drill, a cut and a removal. The train comes from the Greek (thrypan) meaning worm. Trapanning is an old term that has been used for over 5,000 years, making one of the oldest known medical procedures for man. By “Surgic Neurology International” more than 1,500 skulls pierced or 5-10% of skulls found in the Neolitical period (started 12,000 years and ended 4,000 years ago); have been found since Europe and Scandinavian in North America; from Russia and China in South America, especially Peru. Some 200 -600 BC appeared on the Andes. This treatment was widespread in the 16th century.

Why was this procedure practiced?

In ancient times drilling was used as a treatment for certain concerns, such as head injuries, may have been used to treat pain, some scientists believe that it has been a practice used to extract spirits from the body during rituals. Many times the person could survive and recover after the procedure. An example of an unsuccessful procedure is that of a medieval woman who died during pregnancy. The woman had signs of a hole measuring 4.6 millimeters in diameter. Our “Hypotase is that the pregnant woman has suffered preeclamacy or elampsia (in both cases high tension in pregnancy) and she has been treated with these drillings to ease intraracrial pressure,” writes in the study published on May 2018 in the <x2wurmental World Neurwary”. Despite the intervention, the woman did not survive, and she died with the fetus in her womb.

Why is it applied today?

The drilling in human skulls applies today, but today they get the name craniotomy. In this procedure, a surgeon removes part of the skull bone to have access to the brain to treat strokes and tumors. The bone part of the skull is replaced as soon as possible. In some cases people have applied themselves, some have used the “to shine back to” or to come to the aid of mental illness, such as the case Peter Halvorson in 1970; he pierced a hole in his head in an attempt to cure the depression he suffered from. / world.al