
	Where results make sense

Topic: Trepannation

	The Historical Search For The Cure For Human Suffering
		Trepannation involves drilling a hole in the skull with a flint knife to release trapped spirits from inside the head.
		Trepannation has been practised in many cultures and remained popular up to the Middle Ages.
		The interesting thing about trepannation is that it came into being around the same time as human beings left nature completely to live in a man-made environment - both are equal historical signposts of a separation from nature as well as psychoemotional illhealth.
	members.tripod.com /superpsychology/search.html (2991 words)

	THE PARANORMAL - curiosities
		In terms of current understanding, there are no benefits to be gained from trepannation save for evacuating blood clots from the surface of the brain.
		It is unlikely that this was the reason for the operation being performed in prehistory, since nearly all the subjects would have died of infections, and forensic examination reveals that although most subjects died at the time this was done, a fair proportion survived: some even underwent trepannation a second time.
		Prehistoric trepannation probably did not breach the coverings of the brain, but merely penetrated the skull.
	www.newint.org /issue237/curious.htm (671 words)

	[No title]
		A spike was meant to be driven into the skull to hold the instrument steady, while the revolving saw made a circle around it, removing a circle of bone much like a glass-cutter removes a disc of glass.
		After baring the skull, he was unable to drive the spike in.
		She shaves her hair, makes an incision in the scalp with a scalpel, and drills through the skull, causing blood to flow.
	www.ambient.ca /bodmod/hole.html (1912 words)

	FS Ancient Mysteries News: Evidence Of Trepannation On 1000 Year Old Skull
		FS Ancient Mysteries News: Evidence Of Trepannation On 1000 Year Old Skull
		EVIDENCE OF TREPANNATION ON 1000 YR OLD SKULL
		Material reproduced here is for educational and research purposes only.
	farshores.org /a04brain.htm (505 words)

	Guardian \| Evidence of brain surgery 4,000 years ago
		When he died, his skull was cast into the river with others, possibly as a ritual offering to a river god.
		The skull is the first relic found in London of trepannation, a technique used by primitive peoples across the world.
		Some 40 others have been found in Britain, dating from 5,000BC onwards, and using the same scraping method which yielded "a remarkable level of survival" compared with the cruder sawing, gouging or drilling often tried in Europe.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4485711-103690,00.html (419 words)

	heil__amanda's Xanga Site
		There are people out there in the world who actually trepan themselves, which is where you take a hand-held drill and bore a hole in your skull.
		See, trepanners believe that you reach a higher level of consciousness if you simply relieve all that nasty pressure on your brain.
		Since there isn't a single doctor that will do this for them (go figure), they are forced to do it themselves...
	www.xanga.com /heil__amanda (477 words)

	SuicideGirls > Boards > Lifestyle > Home Surgery Is Fun! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Since I had to be conscious while my wrist was open for the tendons to be sewn back together, I've kinda developed a high tollerance to my own gore...
		Costa Mesa, CA Damn, I thought this was gonna be a thread about trepannation.
		Still pretty cool, though- splinters are a bitch to get out once they've been in for a while.
	suicidegirls.com /boards/Lifestyle/17204 (418 words)

	Page 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A half-century ago, the beginning was already being witnessed, since thetechnological conditions had been realised and morality was not strong enoughto prevent developments getting out of hand, to where the military andsecurity aspects of research went hand in glove with medical interests.
		Along the way to modern substances for implants and injections whereby thesolution bonds with cerebral matter to perform predetermined operations, wepass by trepannation where the hospital patient was grossly assaulted so thatelectrodes could be driven into the brain.
		This can be seen as early as 50years ago in x-rays from operations which took place, for example, atKarolinska Hospital in 1946 or Sachska Children Hospital 1948, both located inStockholm.
	myweb.cableone.net /mtilton/cybergods-9.html (415 words)

	[No title]
		This would 'awaken' the pineal region to new sensations which would have to be assimilated or 'mapped' into conscious perception in a rational, understandable way.
		The paper I had on this trepannation procedure said once the hole was created, the blood pressure would cause the exposed brain surface to pulse in and out of the hole, kind of like an expanding and contracting lung.
		The writer who calls himself Lob-Sang Rampa said his third eye (pineal gland) was opened with a sliver of wood which was made larger over time.
	www.textfiles.com /bbs/KEELYNET/BIOLOGY/trepann1.asc (2634 words)

	[No title]
		On a lounger beside the Olympic length open-air swimming pool filled with Chateau Yquem and naked starlets, he was enjoined to "For godsake, keep it light- and no fancy talk!".
		This explains the stangely modern speech; it was with some trepannation that I went to the cinema, imagining in my naivity that I would have to sit through 90 minutes of Elizabethan speech-Tom settled my hash with another bodyshot of fine wine and half-considered having Marlowe suggest that Will downsize his plotbase.
		BTW I'll be dashing off a quick monograph for my semiology email discussion group on the Significance of 90 minutes being the accepted timespan for both mainstream cinema and football- the two biggest 'global campfires',-no doubt, only to be flambeed (drat this kboard) by Umberto Eco.
	web.tiscali.it /KandC/Films/Shakespeareinlerve.htm (904 words)

	Skeptical News
		As a result, trepanners say, you'll be happier, more energetic and less prone to crippling bouts of ennui.
		You'll ascend to the child's plane of acute consciousness from which you disembarked to enter the lowly malaise of adulthood.
		Giving the trepanners momentary benefit of the doubt, Kaufman says, "Let's assume there's something to their theory.
	www.ntskeptics.org /news/news2001-08-24.htm (12492 words)

	Chapel Perilous \| Throwing Punches Underwater
		Trepanning is the practice of drilling a hole through the skull.
		Trepannation allows the pulse pressure (the up and down beating of the heart, measured in mmHg) to extend out to the capillaries.
		This pulse wave causes the capillaries to fill beyond the usual level.
	www.chapel-perilous.net /2004_02_15_archive.php (2218 words)

	Medieval Surgeons Were Advanced - Forums powered by UBBThreads™
		I knew they did trepanning, but I didn't know they were doing it in England at that time!
		BTW, there is some evidence that the Aztecs may also have practised trepannation.
		Despite their penchant for human sacrifice and their reverence for death, they seem to have had fairly extensive understanding of anatomy.
	uplink.space.com /showflat.php?Cat=&Board=freespace&Number=60516&page=7&view=collapsed&sb=3&o=0&fpart= (1217 words)

	Halrloprillalar
		But there are plenty of real squicky body mod links up at this kuo5hin article if that's your thing.
		I'm looking forward to reading the trepannation info.
		In regard to Stargate SG-1, I have crossed the Rubicon.
	prillalar.livejournal.com /tag/links (191 words)

	Extreme body modifications- Implants
		So whats a freak to do to retain the edge without looking like a Yakuza poseur (amputation), or Mayan (trepannation)?
		A lot of buzz has recently been created within the body modification community with regards to the latest modifications walking out of Arizona.
		I can hardly wait for the next Jim Rose Circus tour (early 1997, promises Rose) to see whats growing!
	www.ambient.ca /bodmod/implants.html (1092 words)

	Halfbakery: Automatic Blow-Out Staircase of Excitement
		I always wanted a staircase like Magneto's in X-Men (metal plates that fly into place as you need them).
		cancel my appointment for the trepannation, thank you.
		I also have a bad habit of running up stairs, I hope that this can be accounted for.
	www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/Automatic_20Blow-Out_20Staircase_20of_20Excitement (1134 words)

	Books \| Guardian online Q&A with Philip Pullman
		PP: It's true, I never have read it; but I certainly will one day.
		Q: I'm thinking of undergoing trepannation - it seemed to work for Stanislaus Grumman.
		A lot of the ideas in the HDM books have a plausible basis in science - the idea of multiple universes can be found in modern physics, the evolution of wheels in animals has had serious discussion - where does trepannation fit in?
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4358299-99930,00.html (4379 words)

	WFMU's Beware of the Blog: More eBay Fun
		Or how about: The "Third Eye" is a hole in your head.
		Yes, trepannation - it makes you wise, like a baby.
		Kossy's sociological studies into the lives and beliefs of her subjects is without condescension, no matter how strange they may seem to those in the mainstream.
	blog.wfmu.org /freeform/2006/09/more_ebay_fun.html (499 words)

	Burning Man 1995
		Although the burning man, performances, etc were great fun, my favorite parts was staying up all night Saturday and Sunday raving at the Wicked system.
		On monday morning, Garth was out on the dancefloor and I couldn't help but tell him "Your set on saturday night ripped me a new brain!" Markie and Spun gave me a good trepannation, power tools courtesy of the purple people pusher.
		You really feel directly exposed to the universe out there in the middle of nothing, a dry ancient lake bed -- doing like Jimi Hendrix says "watching the sunrise from the bottom of the sea"...
	www.hyperreal.org /raves/spirit/testimonials/Burning_Man95-Nevada.html (5091 words)

	Phantastic: May 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		He digs for worms, their pods, mimicking their inchy ways while splaying his limbs, crouching, and turning his feet this way and that.
		I am threatening him with a trip to trepannation station, but without him in a lucid state I am not sure where to find it (when we do the minddance).
		Daylight is better, but I do not trust my butler.
	fairybutler.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_fairybutler_archive.html (2590 words)

	NorthwestTekno - 03/14- Cell-Division Presents: Tangent 4.0 - March of the Robot Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Free admission to all March birthdays, and there will be cake and ice cream, punch, pin the tail on the donkey, and a pinata cabeza of everyone's favorite commander
		in chief to be at the recieving end of a much needed baseball bat trepannation.
		Dive in among the shredded remains of Dubya's mache skull and claim your treats!
	www.nwtekno.org /vb/printthread.php?threadid=68971 (465 words)

	frizzyLogic: Holey helpless
		What does a (recovering?) depressive, an0rexic, working mother of two need like the proverbial botched trepannation?
		A new au pair with a severe case of compu1sive eating and bulim1a.
		From the 'stans to Stallone in four easy moves
	www.frizzylogic.org /archives/000271.html (885 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)