Thursday, November 15, 2007
Like a Hole in the Head
Anyone recognize this? Well, hopefully not from personal experience! This is a vintage trepanning kit. Trepanation was a sort of surgery in which a hole was drilled into the skull in order to "release pressure" and treat psychological ailments such as depression. Trepanation does work for certain types of blood clot, such as epidural and subdural hemotomas, and is still used by surgeons. Outside of medical science, trepanation is still practiced as a sort of ''alternative treatment'' or ''body modification''.
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3 comments:
The double-ended measuring spoon troubles me.
Yeah, I'm thinking I should have read the label next to that because it is intriguing.
i read it.
it's a fancy spoon for measuring and administering medicines, and it folds up nice so the doc can put it in his pocket and go on to the next patient!!
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