A hole in the head documentary download

I think Wilbert Smith got confused somewhere along the way and thought this film should be about him. He starts the film saying he's not a writer--it's evident. He's not a writer, not a narrator, not a director, not a documentarian. The soundtrack is God awful. Between the horrible karaoke singers who are completely irrelevant to the film and the off key choir singers who literally sing the same two songs repeatedly throughout the film, I almost could not make it through this train wreck of a documentary.

I bought the book and now I'm petrified to even open it. It's unfortunate that someone qualified did not the film because there is a story here, but this film did a truly terrible job telling it. I'm giving 2 stars for Vertus.

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Email Address never made public. Follow Following. The trephine is a hollow cylinder with a toothed lower edge. Its use was described in detail by Hippocrates. By the time of Celsus, a first-century Roman medical writer, it had a retractable central pin and a transverse handle. It looked almost identical to modern trephines including the one I used as a graduate student on monkeys. The fifth method was to drill a circle of closely-spaced holes and then cut or chisel the bone between the holes.

A bow may have been used for drilling or the drill simply rotated by hand. This method was recommended by Celsus, was adopted by the Arabs, and became a standard method in the Middle Ages. It is also reported to have been used in Peru and, until recently, in North Africa. It is essentially the same as the modern method for turning a large osteoplastic flap in which a Gigli saw a sharp-edged wire is used to saw between a set of small trephined or drilled holes. I used this method as a graduate student, too.

The relationship between the terms trepan and trephine is a curious one. The terms are now synonyms but have different origins and once had different meanings. In the 16th century, Fabricius ab Aquapendente invented a triangular instrument for boring holes in the skull. It had three arms with different-shaped points. Each of the ends could be applied to the skull using the other two as handles. In another version of the etymology, a quite different triangular instrument for boring a hole in the skull was invented in by John Woodall, a London surgeon, who also called his instrument a tres fines, which became trefina and then trephine and, eventually, a synonym for trepan.

More generally, in Renaissance times and later, trephination was a popular operation and a great variety of instruments for carrying it out were invented. Why did so many cultures in different periods cut or drill holes in the skull? Since most trephined skulls come from vanished nonliterate cultures, the problem of reconstructing the motivations for trephining in these cultures is a difficult one.

However, there is information about trephining in Western medicine from the fifth century BCE onward as well as about trephining in recent and contemporary non-Western medical systems.

Both of these sources may throw light on the reasons for the practice in earlier times. In the following sections we consider trephination in Hippocratic medicine, in ancient Chinese medicine, in European medicine from the Renaissance onward, in contemporary non-Western medicine, and on the Internet today. The earliest detailed account of trephining is in the Hippocratic corpus, the first large body of Western scientific or medical writing that has survived.

Although there is no question that there was a famous physician called Hippocrates in the fifth century BCE, it is not clear which of the Hippocratic works were written by him. The most extensive discussion of head injuries and the use of trephining in their treatment is in the Hippocratic work On Wounds in the Head.

This treatise describes five types of head wounds. Interestingly, however, the only type for which trephination is not advocated is in cases of depressed fractures. Even when there is not much sign of bruising, drilling a hole in the head is recommended. The trephining instrument was very similar to the modern trephine, except that it was turned between the hands or by a bow and string rather than by using a crosspiece. The Hippocratic writer stressed the importance of proceeding slowly and carefully in order to avoid injuring the [dural] membrane.

The Hippocratic doctors believed that stagnant blood like stagnant water was bad. It could decay and turn into pus. Thus, the reason for trephining, or at least one reason, was to allow the blood to flow out before it spoiled. Since they presumably had no notion of intracerebral pressure, why did they want the blood to run out? In cases of depressed fractures, there was no need to trephine since there were already passages in the fractured skull for the blood to escape.

He was well aware of avoiding damage or pressure on the dura and indeed carried out experiments on the effect of pressing on the dura in animals. The possibility that trepanation was practiced in ancient China is suggested by the following story about Cao Cao and Hua Tua, from a historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong, written in the Ming dynasty — and set in — at the end of the Later Han dynasty.

Cao Cao was commander of the Han forces and posthumously Emperor of the Wei dynasty, and Hua Tuo was and still is a famous physician of the time. Cao Cao screamed and awoke, his head throbbing unbearably.

Physicians were sought, but none could bring relief. The court officials were depressed. Your highness should call for him. Hua Tuo was speedily summoned and ordered to examine the ailing king. The root cause is in the skull, where trapped air and fluids are building up. The method I would advise is this: after general anesthesia I will open your skull with a cleaver and remove the excess matter, only then can the root cause be removed.