Primitive Trephining in Peru
Author: Manuel Antonio Mun̄iz
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13:
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A Hole in the Head
Author: Charles G. Gross
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012-01-13
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0262291592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys—from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells—in the history of brain sciences. Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the Head is the second collection of essays in which he illuminates the study of the brain with fascinating episodes from the past. This volume's tales range from the history of trepanation (drilling a hole in the skull) to neurosurgery as painted by Hieronymus Bosch to the discovery that bats navigate using echolocation. The emphasis is on blind alleys and errors as well as triumphs and discoveries, with ancient practices connected to recent developments and controversies. Gross first reaches back into the beginnings of neuroscience, then takes up the interaction of art and neuroscience, exploring, among other things, Rembrandt's “Anatomy Lesson” paintings, and finally, examines discoveries by scientists whose work was scorned in their own time but proven correct in later eras.
Trepanation, Trephining and Craniotomy
Author: José M González-Darder
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-09-04
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 3030222128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes readers on a journey around the world and through time, accompanied by a modern neurosurgeon who reviews historical techniques and instruments used for cranial opening. The author draws on original medical and surgical books to provide a comprehensive history of these techniques and tools. To complement the general overview and offer readers a more ‘hands-on’ sense of context and atmosphere, extensive historical references, stories, media news and illustrative cases have been included for each historical and geographical scenario. In addition, original illustrations and plates of these archaic instruments and techniques are supplied. Neurosurgical surgeons, nurses, technicians, medical historiographers, paleo-pathologists and researchers interested in surgical techniques for cranial opening will find the volume a valuable guide, intended to increase the historical and cultural awareness of this core topic in neurological surgery.
Indigenous Visions
Author: Ned Blackhawk
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0300196512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology
Trepanation
Author: Robert Arnott
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2005-09-26
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0203970942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume will look at the history of trepanation, the identification of skulls, the tools used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation might have been performed many thousands of years ago.
A History of Medicine: Primitive and ancient medicine
Author: Plinio Prioreschi
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 1888456019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElongated Skulls of Peru and Bolivia
Author: Brien Foerster
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-03-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781507892817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Elongated human skulls have been found in the archaeological record on every inhabited continent, and most commonly these people existed about 2000 years ago. The vast majority were elite members of various societies and artificial cranial deformation was performed on them as infants in order to achieve a specific look so as to differentiate them from the general public. Nowhere was this more commonplace than in Peru and Bolivia, and this book sets out to figure out where these societies lived, when, and how they may have been related. The most mysterious aspect is that some of the ancient people of Peru and Bolivia may have in fact been born with elongated skulls. Should this turn out through medical examination to be true, the history of humanity many have to be re-written."--Supplied by publisher
Bore Hole
Author: Joe Mellen
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2015-10-29
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1907222391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen's legendary, long out-of-print auto-trepanation memoir. A heavily expanded edition of Joe Mellen's legendary, long out-of-print auto-trepanation memoir, Bore Hole takes us deep into the dawning of the UK's psychedelic counter culture, and into a mind breaking free from the confines of a traditional English upbringing. Travelling to Morocco and Ibiza, then back to the first spring of swinging London, Joe Mellen discovers the pleasures of hashish, is captivated by the visionary intensity of LSD and, after meeting the Dutch psychedelic guru Bart Huges, attempts the ultimate head trip, the bore hole. As well as a selection of unseen archive photographs, this edition includes a new postscript, essays, appendices and a 1967 interview with Bart Huges.
A History of Surgery
Author: Harold Ellis
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781138617407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreceded by The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery / Harold Ellis. 2nd ed. 2009.
On Fracture of the Skull Or Cranium
Author: Jacopo Berengario da Carpi
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780871698049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a print on demand publication. Berengario da Carpi obtained his doctorate in med. in Bologna in 1489. He was elected to the chair of surgery in 1502 & to that of med. in 1505. In 1508 during an outbreak of plague he was charged by the city gov't. with combatting its ravages as chief health officer. In 1517 Berengario was called to Ancona, where Lorenzo dei Medici had been wounded, resulting in an occipital fracture & consequent shock trauma. His treatment is described in "De Fractura," f. 25 b. The event represented a significant advance in Berengario's professional experience, recorded in the "De Fractura Calvae sive Cranei," which was inspired by the occurrence. He dedicated the work to this patient, Lorenzo, to whom Machiavelli had also dedicated "The Prince" in 1513. Illus.
