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Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples (1892)

Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de, 1818-1904, D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 296

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ife, the other after death?The first measured two and a third by two and a half TREPAN A TION: 273 inches, and was surrounded by scratches, showing howclumsy the operator had beeu.^ In nearly every case the subjects ojjerated on wereyoung, and long survived the operation. The knowl-edge of this… … Fig. 82.—Skull from the Bougon dolmen (Deux-Sevres), seen in profile. had a large opening jiroduced partly by an old opera-tion and partly by two posthumous trepanations. Thesubject had been trepanned in childhood or earlyyouth. There could be no doubt on that point; cica-trization had been…

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