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Trephination

Images

  • Trephine with bit attached, Strasbourg, Austria, 1780-1820
  • Primitive surgical instruments used by the Chaoulas, from the slide collection of T. Wilson Parry, No. 3978
  • Superior aspect of Cranium 18 from Cuzco (triple-trephined).
  • Anterior aspect of Squiers, Inca Skull, showing trephinning.
  • Surgical instrument set, London, England, 1810-1812
  • Surgical Holing of the Skull in the Neolithic age
  • Illustrations of trephanned skulls (A-C)
  • Trephination set, Paris, France, 1771-1830
  • Piece of skull used in a trephination experiment with an obs
  • Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine, 2200-2000
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Catalogue

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    Diorama showing trephination in Neolithic times, England, 19

    Science Museum, London
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    Case of instruments for trephination; English.

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    Piece of skull used in a trephination experiment with an obs

    Science Museum, London
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    Primitive surgical instruments used by the Chaoulas, from the slide collection of T. Wilson Parry, No. 3978

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    Field surgical pannier set, United Kingdom, 1905

    Science Museum, London
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