During the Middle Ages, treatments for malaria ( and other diseases ) included blood-letting, inducing vomiting, limb amputations and trepanning.
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John tries to shoot Dahmer to prevent him from trepanning the young man, not knowing that the shot will have no effect on ghosts.
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Lyrically, several songs on the band's follow-up album vented their frustrations with RCA, including a song entitled " Trepanning ".
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The trepanning on this skull would have been carried out with a scraping tool, probably a flint, using great care to avoid piercing the brain.
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Trepanning, the practice of drilling holes in the skull, was performed from prehistoric times to the early Middle Ages and then again during the Renaissance.
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One example might be attaching thin sheet metal to a wooden faceplate using woodscrews, allowing the trepanning of holes, with the tool cutting into the sacrificial faceplate material.
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"Trepanning is probably the oldest form of surgery we know, " said Simon Mays, an expert on human skeletal remains with the conservation group English Heritage.
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A trepan, sometimes called a BTA drill bit ( after the Boring and Trepanning Association ), is a drill bit that cuts an annulus and leaves a center core.
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In April 1920, a surgeon in Liverpool attempted to cure the epilepsy by trepanning, an operation that was reported to have resulted in the partial paralysis of both legs.
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Both the " Old Book of Tang " and " New Book of Tang " record that Eastern Roman surgical practice of trepanning to remove parasites from the brain.
