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I read an article in Discover magazine about 6 or 7 years back about trepanation. I'm pretty sure that they said there is evidence that trepanation has been practiced from something like 4,000 years. Interestingly, even that long ago the procedure existed, and people (at least sometimes) survived. I think that they could tell from the state of the hole in the skull that the patient had lived for at least several years beyond the surgery. Even when I read this article (almost a decade ago) there was talk about a bunch of people that were bringing this practice back - by doing it at home like this guy...
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