| Show indians well skilled in art of trepanning surgery in at least one form was an adNan advanced ced art in the new world before the coming of columbus this was the operation for lourds in the skull known as hining buch such is the conclusion of dr ales curator of physical anthropology of the sm institution from an intensive study of the trepanned skulls in the national museum collee eions in the andes he nys mys there were skilled specialists in this line who perfected their technique on corpses and then operated with ex boldness and rather uniform success on the living for the most part they were surgeons attending to the wounded after a battle doctor erdl cl a believes that the be beginning 1 of ills tl Is surgical art may lave t anve been I 1 rought from asia by some of the original nn an atit tt it it con with the neolithic einings of europe and bortl era ern africa |
