How Trepanation Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

One of the oldest medical procedures in human history is also one of the riskiest. For thousands of years humans carried a type of proto brain surgery where a hole would be cut into the skull. And they were pretty good at it too.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.0	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and Jerry's even here, which means this is a bona fide,
0:49.6	a bona fide, shut your mouth episode of Stuff You Should Know.
0:55.0	Right, until Jerry's like, go go go.
0:58.4	I wasn't going to out or like that, but you did.
1:00.4	So she'll probably end up being sore at me about it though.
1:04.2	We're all busy these days.
1:06.0	Seriously, life, man.
1:07.8	Life times a hundred, right?
1:09.9	Yeah, I mean, 13 years in and we're still working out technical difficulties.
1:13.5	I know.
1:15.5	I know.
1:16.6	But we're working it out.
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