A SURGICAL OPERATION IN THE DAYS OF THE INCAS.
The ' British Medioal Journal says :—“M. Broca has presented to the Academy a most' remarkable anatomical preparation. It is a skull-found in the tomb of the luoas, four miles from the city of Cuzco. M f Broca believes that the skull belonged to an individual who underwent at the same time a fracture and a denudation of the frontal bone. The curious part of it is that the bone shows traces of having undergone the operation of trephining. A circular white spot is visible, whioh shows necrosis of a portion of the bone; and all around it the ratified tissue has evidently been the seat of an OBtetis, the commencement of eliminative action. M. Nelaton has examined the preparation, and calculates that the patient survived the operation about fifteen days. The opening is of a lozenge shape, and about twelve millimetres iu diameter. M. Broca thinks that the operation was performed with a gpuge.”
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 47, 25 November 1867, Page 290
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