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This drill was built to bore straight through a human skull — and people survived it. Ancient healers used flint, shark teeth, and sheer skill to perform brain surgery millennia before anesthesia existed. Trepanning is one of the oldest surgical procedures ever documented, practiced on every inhabited continent, and skulls have been found with healed bone growth proving patients lived for years afterward. This is the real story of the trepanning drill, from Neolithic flint tools to the modern neurosurgical burr that still, in essence, does the same job.
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