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Show J Ancients Had More Than Fair Idea of Surgery Evidence that skull surgery was successfully suc-cessfully practiced by prehistoric people peo-ple in Michigan has been presented to the American Association for the Advancement Ad-vancement of Science by Frof. E. F. Greenman of the University of Michigan. Michi-gan. Pointing out that Michigan has been greatly neglected as a field for areheologieal investigation, he said : "In Alpena county, Michigan, several sev-eral trephined skulls that is, skulls into which holes were drilled during flhe life of the patient, have been reported. re-ported. One of them is In the University Univer-sity of Michigan museum and careful examination by anatomists of repute shows that a healing had begun after the operation and therefore the area of the practice of skull trephining must be extended far beyond Mexico." |