Most people associate Civil War medicine with amputations and saws. There were a lot of amputations performed when bones in the arms or legs were shattered, and in most cases it was the best method of ...

Rib-trephining was suggested to me by Dr. Hugh Cabot, who states that the method has been employed by a Norwegian (written in connection with Dalton Scholarship, 1910–11), whose name he does not ...

Trephining in New Britain AN account of trephining methods employed by the natives of New Britain during tribal wars is contributed by J. L. Meacher, of Frankston, Victoria, Australia, to the Brit.

Stewart, T. Dale. 1956. "Significance of osteitis in ancient Peruvian trephining." Bulletin of the history of medicine, 30, (4) 293–320.

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Steward, T. D. 1950. "Deformity, trephining, and mutilation in South American Indian skeletal remains." In Handbook of South American Indians: Physical anthropology, linguistics, and cultural ...

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