Show Indians Indiana Well Skilled I in in Art of Trepanning Surgery In at least one form was an advanced art In n the New ew world before the coming of Columbus This was the operation for wounds In the skull known kno as ns Such Is the conclusion of Dr Ales II curator of physical anthropology y of th Smithsonian Institution from an intensive study of the trepanned skulls In the National museum collections collections In the Andes niles he says there were skilled specialists In this line who perfected their technique on corpses and then operated with ex ex- extreme extreme boldness and rather uniform Success on the living For the most part they were sur surgeons eons attending to the wounded after a n battle Doctor believes that the he beginnings have be been n of this lids surgical art may of ot the the original from Asia by some brou brought ht that It COO con con nf original migrants and tree neolithic the fleets ts with of Europe and northern Africa |