Another hole in the head
There was a fantastic response to my illustrated history of trepanation, including an amusing post at Table of Malcontents, and this painting via Bioephemera, which depicts an instrument that’s very similar to the transverse handle brace trepan described by Ambroise ParĂ© in the late sixteenth century.
UPDATE: Vaughan has unearthed a 1923 paper about a ninth century trepanned skull from Ireland.
