Yet more boring holes...

[Nigel E. Richardson]

I know, I know, you're all sick to death of this, but there's a piece in 
today's Independent on Sunday (UK newspaper) written by Joe Mellen's 
current partner, Jenny Gathorne-Hardy. And yes, he's drilled a hole in her 
head too, 30 years after he did it to his previous partner.

Apparently, the modern interest in trepanation comes from a Dutch doctor
called Bart Huges who reckoned that human beings have been deprived of
the necessary "brain blood volume" since they started to walk upright and
a hole in the head was (somehow) the only way to increase the blood
pressure in the brain to the required degree. The rest of us are only
able to keep the blood in our brains at the correct pressure by
thinking all the time - which he reckoned was bad. (This was the mid-60s,
remember.) If we all had holes in our heads we wouldn't have to think all 
the time and the world would be a better place.

Last word on the subject from me: Mellen's first trepanoid, Amanda 
Feilding, stood for Parliament twice in the borough of Chelsea on a Free 
Trepanation For All platform. She got a total of 188 votes...








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