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| | Gusii trepanation - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya |
 | | If all the reasons for trepanation are put together, the common mechanism behind all the conditions in the list is to remove something. |
 | | There is a continuum, from immaterial to material, from magic and thaumaturgy to science - evil spirits and demons, vapors, humors, air, hypothetical "pressures," actual pressures, real and fictional foreign bodies, "unknown substances," pus, blood and finally, pieces of bone. |
 | | The bad results usually end up at government hospitals with local infections or meningitis, or are investigated by the police as deaths. |
| www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/gusii/trepanation.htm (2118 words) |
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