Although now the modern era, patients undergoing brain surgery still feel scared with the procedure. Cranial cavity is one of the most weak areas in the anatomy of the human body, and the brain is the most important in the eyes of the surgeon.
Many people understand if unintentionally cause the slightest damage to the brain, the consequences are enormous.
But the thing that is seen as the most daring achievements in modern medicine, strangely is a procedure that has also been used in ancient history. Surgery - a practice open or make a hole in the skull - this is a practice that has made people around the world for thousands of years.
Skulls ever dissected been found in several different regions of the world, including in the 'New World' the rest of the pre-Colombian cultures, starting from the discovery of a specimen Peru in 1863.
Another example is the discovery of a skull with multiple surgical scars of 5000 years in France from the period of the Neolithic (New Stone Age). Evidence of the success of surgery is very clear skull and individuals that continue to live after the surgery is chronic.
Look at the history of the older, more evidence of the practice of surgery was also found from the Mesolithic period (Middle Stone Age), between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago. Surgical scars skull of the oldest discovered in Ukraine in 1966, and the skull was 8,020 and 7,620 years old - that is from the days when most archeologists believe that the man had just moved from living in a cave home.
More than just treatment.
To be sure, on the level of difficulty of the procedure can be concluded a degree all the medical skills of high, even though some anthropologists also connect with the mystical ritual, judging from the number of former surgical scars skull found in several places. In Baumes-Chaudes, France, of 350 skulls examined, found 60 skulls surgical scars.With a number of former surgical skull large enough, some people think that this is a 'privilege' granted to certain segments of the population. Examples of the Pharaohs of Egypt, they will undergo cranial surgery several times in life because of a belief that their lives would be easier to leave their bodies after death.
Today, medical doctors take a difficult method is just to reduce the pressure of the patient's skull and drain the bleeding, but it is usually not taken methods that given the high risks. However argued ancient people had considerations other than medical purposes to open the head.
While there are some people consider our ancestors used surgery to cure mental illness - aims to relieve the patient's brain from the torment of ghosts and spirits are pervasive - other researchers said the skull surgery of the past is a way to offer a spiritual experience that is very encouraging. Such confidence is still valid today.
In 1962, Hughes published The Dutchman Bart Mechanism of Brainblood volume, said that by punching holes in the skull, the brain volume of blood increases. Thus, Hughes believes individuals who do this can increase their awareness, with a higher awareness approaching the consciousness of a child with a 'soft spot' her.
By standing on his head or taking herbs that can increase blood flow to the brain, similar conditions can be achieved for a while. But Hughes was more interested in a more permanent condition rather than simply with herbs, because it is he doing this procedure on himself in 1965.
Some people also follow Hughes; for example artist Amanda Feilding who recorded his surgical process itself in a document entitled Heartbeat in the Brain.
Surgical equipment.
In some ancient medical practice, if a patient suffers from headaches because of the tumor, the doctor will use a tool to tap certain parts of the head. When the man complained of pain, medical practitioners will feel confident that the tumor had been found.Then the operation was carried out to give the patient an anesthetic primitive. Specialists will cut the scalp and breaking the bone with a simple surgical instrument and being careful not to damage the patient's brain.
How they cut and take away part of the bone is a mystery, because the skull is proven not easily perforated.
Once the operation is completed (probably under very sterile conditions), soft leather lining will be sewn back together. As long as no modern implants, skull cracking can not be pasted back, and eventually new skin will grow over the hole.
Ancient Inca has called tumi knife to perform surgical procedures. Tumi forms are now widely used as the plan, adopted by the Peruvian Academy of Surgery, plays high as an important part of the ancient Inca culture, and is used extensively to promote tourism in Peru.
Features blade is difficult to understand by a man with an elaborate headdress, stood at the top resembles a shovel-shaped blade. This sacred object has a history that predates even the Inca civilization. In 2006, 12 tumi found in the pre-Inca cemetery of ancient Peru.
Hippocrates proposed skull surgery for injuries to the head, and the ancient Greeks had some equipment to carry out the procedure. One is terebra shaped 't', which is the way it works almost like a drill primitive.
While the ancient Egyptian civilization can be proud of the relatively advanced medical equipment. The researchers believe that they are doing brain surgery with a hammer and chisel.
An interesting fact to note in the procedure of ancient Egyptian civilization is the presence of a person who serves as a 'hemostatic' (an agency that works to stop bleeding). Ancient specialist treatment that allegedly has the power to stop the bleeding with her to the operating room.
Medical surgery has evolved over 10,000 years, far beyond the modern standard medical procedures. But most of the medical community with the firm issued a ban against strong desire deemed unnecessary surgery, may occur due to some risk of death.
Although the euphoria demands of today's surgical support firm demand for the results of penetration of the skull, many medical professionals take into account that the benefits are calculated is not likely to occur and have a negligible risk. Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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DatePublished: 15 September 2015 at 08:57
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