Saturday, 3 October 2026

Trepanation in the practice of the 16th-century Spanish physician Franciscus Arceus

Old engraving of two men operating on the head of a patient seated in a chair, with a sick person lying in bed in the room behind.

Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful medicine of the past. What bliss to live in the twentieth century. And, in part, the twenty-first.

Trepanation by the sixteenth-century Spanish physician Francisco Arceo

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