Man before metals / by N. Joly.

  • Nicolas Joly
Date:
1883
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Man before metals / by N. Joly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CEANIAL AMULETS. After the death of persons who had while living under- fione surgical trepanning, a sort of posthumous trepanning was practised upon them, which consistéd in taking trom the skull circiüar pièces and fragments of varions torms, taking care always to preserve on one of the edges of each piece of bone a part of the cicatrised edge of the original •opening (fig- 142). That was in some sort the authentic .signature, the trade-mark of the coveted talisman, which was thereby rendered so precious to the fortunate posses- sor. The healed edge does in fact exist upon nearly ail Fig. 143. Cranial amulkt, with Fig. 144. Irregülar cranial amvlet, GROOVE FOR PASSING A CORD. WITII A HOEE IN TUE 5IIDDI.E FOR Taken from the dolmen cnlled the pa.s-sage of a coed. Collectioa Cave of the Fairies, in Lozère. of M. Prunières. (Natural size). Collection of M. Prunière.s. (Naturnl size). the posthumous amulets : which proves beyond a doubt that the subject trepanned while living had long sur- vived the operation. This edge is smooth ; -but it is dis- tinguished from the remaining edges of the amulet, in .that the newly-formed bony substance covers the cells of the diploe, whereas the cells are visible in the other parts from the very efifect of the polishing (figs. 143, 144). The dises with polished edges were, it appears, fancy nmulets, and are much rarer than the unpolished on es. Z
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