Drilling holes in the skull was never a migraine cure – here’s why it was long thought to be

Drilling holes in the skull was never a migraine cure – here’s why it was long thought to be

"Trepanation – the technique of removing bone from the skull by scraping, sawing, drilling or chiselling – has long fascinated those interested in the darker side of medical history."

Detail from The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting trepanation (c.1488–1516).

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