Putting holes in your head.... (fwd)

[David Wesson]

In your message dated Saturday 9, September 1995 you wrote :
> Uhhh. . . 
> 
> I have a question.  What about the holes?  Is the brain, then, left 
> exposed?  Forever?  Can this be a good thing, risking such serious infection?
> 
> I can't imagine WANTING to saw through the skull.  Maybe for Amanda and 
> whoever else tried it, there was such NEED to relieve pressure and thus 
> evoke SANITY that the operation was an imperative unable to be ignored.
> 
> WHA?
> 
> Bonnie
> 

I remember reading about this - including all the details of the original 
message - in Fortean Times about five years ago. As I remember it, the bone 
gradually grows back over the hole, thus encouraging the trepanner to make 
further borings...

At the risk of turning this into an alt.tasteless stream, there was also details 
of someone using a *power* drill as an update to this ancient practice...
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:From David Wesson (David at wessond.demon.co.uk)