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  • Trephining, from Buck "Reference handbook...", 1904
  • Plate XXIV. Trepanning or trephining of the cranium.
  • Trephining by means of a circular groove. In this case evidently done to enlarge a previous opening.
  • Stone and copper instruments used by the Incas in the operation of trephining
  • Neolithic methods of trephining by T. Wilson Parry, from the slide collection of T. Wilson Parry, No. 3977
  • Louis Pasteur (left) watching a colleague trephining a chloroformed rabbit during his research on rabies vaccination. Wood engraving (?), 1885.
  • Anterior aspect of Squiers, Inca Skull, showing trephinning.
  • Trephination Instruments
  • Trephination operation, 1821
  • Trephined skull from Cuzco
  • A trephined human skull. Photograph.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: trephination
  • Museum Exhibition 1972-73. Trephination
  • Corneal Trephine of Von Hippel
  • Case of instruments for trephination; English.
  • Leather covered case of trephination instruments.
  • Trephined skullin showing different stages of healing
  • Plate II, illustration of trephination. Sir Charles Bell
  • A trephined human skull from New Britain. Photograph, 1940.
  • Corneal Trephine - type introduced by Von Hippel, 1888.
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • Trephination, preparation of medicines from raw materials, a skeleton, a muscleman and a portrait of A. Paré. Line engraving.
  • A surgeon and his assistant operating on a patient's head and using a drill to perform the trephination. Engraving, 1731.
  • Primitive surgical instruments used by the Chaoulas, from the slide collection of T. Wilson Parry, No. 3978
  • Surgical Holing of the Skull in the Neolithic age
  • Skull of woman showing cauterised T-shaped scar, Neolithic. Dolmen of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (seine-Et-Oise)
  • Wellcome museum: prehistoric gallery
  • Trépanation néolithique, trépanation pré-Colombienne, trépanation des Kabyles, trépantion traditionnelle / par Lucas-Champonnière.
  • Trépanation néolithique, trépanation pré-Colombienne, trépanation des Kabyles, trépantion traditionnelle / par Lucas-Champonnière.
  • A sitting physician is trepanning another man's head while two others consult. Watercolour drawing.