stackyFACTSGot a headache? Seizures? Just acting generally weird?
Got a headache? Seizures? Just acting generally weird? Ancient shamans had a foolproof, terrifying solution: trepanation. They would scrape or drill a literal hole into your skull without anesthesia to give the malicious demons trapped inside a convenient exit door. The most shocking part of this horrific mystical medical procedure is that many of the excavated skulls show clear signs of bone healing, meaning the patients survived having a rock forcefully bored into their head.
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