![]() It was believed that through this opening the evil spirit(s)-thought to be inhabiting one’s head and causing their psychopathology-would be released and the individual would be cured (“Measuring”). During this procedure, a hole, or trephine, was chipped into the skull using crude stone instruments. Trephining (also referred to as trepanning) first occurred in Neolithic times.
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