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- asgardshill, on 06/17/2009, -1/+19Researchers are also finding that leeches and maggots can clean certain types of wounds far better than anything we have now.
There is nothing new under the sun. - trentrezn0r, on 06/17/2009, -4/+20Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die
Than give you control - inactive, on 06/17/2009, -0/+13they said it was good for you... then it was bad for you... now it's good for you again! Just like black tar heroin.
- shutaro, on 06/17/2009, -0/+12Those evil spirits have to get out of your head somehow!
- OfNumbers, on 06/17/2009, -1/+12My how we've evolved.
- MuadDave, on 06/17/2009, -0/+9Dugg for "in Soviet Russia" used in article.
- andyb747, on 06/17/2009, -0/+6I need trepanation like I need another hole in my head.
- inactive, on 06/17/2009, -0/+4Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head, remember that?
- Frostek, on 06/17/2009, -0/+4That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me!
- Shogun213, on 06/17/2009, -2/+6Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve - robotMutant, on 06/17/2009, -0/+3That's gonna leave a mark!
- kartman2001, on 06/17/2009, -0/+3In Soviet Russia hole drills you.
- rinote, on 06/17/2009, -1/+4I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love redundancy just like I love saying the same thing again redundantly.
- trentrezn0r, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2God moneys not looking for the cure.
God moneys not concerned with the sick among the pure. - roastedbagel, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2Oh hell no
- dafragsta, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised
God money's not one to choose - PeanutCheeseBar, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2Dugg for muxaulo's icon; I ***** LOVE Shadow of the Colossus.
- trentrezn0r, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2No, you can't take it
No, you can't take it
No, you can't take that away from me - RainyDayNinja, on 06/17/2009, -1/+3I tend to think ancient societies were a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
- RobotBuddha, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2Any one in particular? They were, when you get down to it, equally smart as any modern day culture. Because we're all the same species. What they lacked was scientific methodology. The ability to create experiments to rule out placebo, chance, etc and then refine this information to modify or falsify something else. Which is why, even if they were smart in general, I don't think one should start out with an assumption that they were anything but wrong when it comes to medicine.
- trentrezn0r, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve - dicer999, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2iPhone OS 3.0?
- m0tbaillie, on 06/17/2009, -1/+3Well, maggots only eat dead, necrotic tissue and won't touch good tissue. It's easier than having a doctor cut away potentially good meat.
Dunno about leeches though... - inactive, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2I love how someone randomly guesses that our ancestors drilled holes in people's skulls "to let demons out" and so therefore that's what we all automatically believe. There's no proof whatsoever that Trepanation was done for religious or superstitious reasons. We just can't handle the idea that our ancestors did ANYTHING for any reason other than "to be dumbasses". This despite the fact that we're constantly being faced with evidence that they were at least as smart, if not as technologically advanced, as we are. We couldn't figure out how to build the Sphinx or the Great Pyramids using their level of technology if you put a ***** gun to our heads, and we still use Algebra and Calculus that were developed thousands of years ago. And yet any time we mention ancient man, we assume this smug air of ridiculous superiority, and insist that their sole motivations for anything they did was "expelling demons".
- kyle212, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1We have so many cures for dementia now but I've still not seen any of them, any chance of these "cures" you know, curing something?
- homercles337, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1The dura is one of the most sensitive tissues in the entire human body. I think i will pass on the trephanation. I have performed craniotomies while in grad school and when you get to the dura ***** can get crazy if youre not delivering adequate drugs.
- anthropodeus, on 06/17/2009, -1/+2and marijuana
- netwraythe, on 06/17/2009, -1/+2Somewhere in there is a " . . . need that like another hole in the head!" joke.
- 4degrees, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1From the words of Dr Leonard McCoy: "My god man, drilling holes in his head is not the answer! Now move aside and let me save this man!"
- rinote, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1See Below.
- kmb1794, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1I think it will increase blood flow while the body repairs the head trauma, but I don't think it will have a lasting effect once healed.
- IceOfDiamonds, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1Next week on House...
- RainyDayNinja, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1On the other hand, natural versions of many pharmaceuticals (such as aspirin) were used in ancient history. They may have lacked scientific methodologies, but a medicine man whose cures never work isn't going to be believed for long, and people are going to turn to the next herb to smoke or body part to drain fluid from. Eventually, people are going to find something that helps, even if just a little bit. So I think it may be presumptuous to assume that ancient people didn't know what they were doing, and we should instead, critically and skeptically, look at these practices and try to determine if there was something to them.
- cpugeek2214, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1"The Lincoln Assassination actually just recently became okay. 'I need to see this play like I need a hole in the head.'"- Michael Scott
- RobotBuddha, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1Don't blame scientists for the crappiness of pop-science reporters.
- lfabbric, on 06/17/2009, -0/+0Their goes my favorite saying...
need something like I need a hole in my head. - IceOfDiamonds, on 06/17/2009, -1/+1thats four words. this is seven words.
- Idowhatiwant, on 06/17/2009, -2/+1New Scientist needs to go away
- standxstrongx, on 06/17/2009, -2/+1Two words: placebo effect.
- inactive, on 06/17/2009, -2/+1in soviet russia, doctors penetrate you for money
- inactive, on 06/17/2009, -3/+2YOU AND ME, WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER NOW!!!
- nesagwa, on 06/17/2009, -6/+0Nobody will read this article. Too academic.
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