Ancient Medicine and Surgery

6500 BC: First documented surgery in the Neolithic period (Late Stone Age) in France. Skulls of humans who survived trepanation (Burr holes) have been found1. May have been performed due to a head injury, as an attempt to treat mental illness or to bring back the life of prominent members of the gro

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