Surgical intervention; drilling a hole in the skull

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

Trepanation, from, 'Chirurgia'

M0015630: Instruments for trephination, from Bertrandi: <i>Opere</i>, 1786

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.

A sitting physician is trepanning another man's head while two others consult. Watercolour drawing.

Skulls showing trephination from R. D' Harcourt

Trephination, preparation of medicines from raw materials, a skeleton, a muscleman and a portrait of A. Paré. Line engraving.

M0016064: Set of trephination Instruments, including the trephine designed by John Woodall

Trephination operation, 1821

M0015659: Skull with trephination hole from the cave of Nogert-les-vierges

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

M0018891EA: Human skull with trepanation hole, Uganda

M0015871: The blades of two trephination elevators with makers mark

M0016551: Two skulls showing craniotomy or extensive trephination, Peru

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

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Trephining

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Images about Trephining

Works from the collections

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

M0018891EA: Human skull with trepanation hole, Uganda

M0015871: The blades of two trephination elevators with makers mark

M0016551: Two skulls showing craniotomy or extensive trephination, Peru

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

Trephining

Images from the collections

Images about Trephining

Works from the collections

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

M0018891EA: Human skull with trepanation hole, Uganda

M0015871: The blades of two trephination elevators with makers mark

M0016551: Two skulls showing craniotomy or extensive trephination, Peru

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

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