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Concept

Trephining

Images

  • Primitive surgical instruments used by the Chaoulas, from the slide collection of T. Wilson Parry, No. 3978
  • Trepanation, from, 'Chirurgia'
  • Plate 35, Trepanation of the skull.
  • A trephined human skull from New Britain. Photograph, 1940.
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    A praehistorikus trepanáció és orvostőrténeti vonatkozású sírleletek / [Lajos Bartucz].

    Bartucz, Lajos. | Date: 1966
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0015871: The blades of two trephination elevators with makers mark

    | Date: 1957 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/142/17
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    Three cases of cranial surgery ... / by William H. Morrison.

    Morrison, W. H. (William H.) | Date: 1892
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0005288: Detail of a trepanned skull, Papua New Guinea

    | Date: November 1937 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/43/19
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine : présentée et soutenue le 22 décembre 1841, / par Léon-Jean de Jonchère-Finot, né à Paris. I. Des complications de la gangrène. ... [etc].

    Jonchère-Finot, Léon-Jean de. | Date: 1841
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