Show oo 00 EARLY RACES TRIED SURGERY Operation Thousands of Years Ago Revealed By Skull YORK YORI Oct 30 30 nse of what la le believed to bo the practice practice tice of o surgery on this continent several thousand years eus before the era of ot the Pueblo cliff dwellers has been resealed re by the tho discovery of an additional skull near San Ban Cristobal Mexico Announcement was mil made de today y b the tho American Museum Of ot r-n- r Natural Na Natural tural History that a new skull ex- ex extremely extremely long and narrow and un- un un l quite the opposite of ot the short hort teed lie type previously found In the Mexican district had been unearthed by Dr L R Sullivan an physical anthropologist ton ho Sep Sep- September Sep September I I 28 The skull his hie an ou oral o hole three centimeters long IonIC and t two 0 centi centi- centimeter centimeters I I meter meters wide sho Ing th that t a wound I Thad had made an operation l necessary and the bone had hall bon been cut or scraped with a II sharp Instrument According to the description for for- forwarded warded tor-warded warded to the tho 1 Dr Sulli Sullivan I van van n said the patient undoubtedly died d from the operation The discovery ry Of skulls hulls nae first made by Ear Earl H Morris Morns the museums museum S explorer In New Mexico last August Since then thenh h 0 other skulls I of similar type tO o hale ha been found |