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

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

The Conversation

The Conversation

Trepanation

Katherine Foxhall is a lecturer in history at the University of Leicester

Trepanation – the technique of removing bone from the skull by scraping, sawing, drilling or chiselling – has long fascinated those interested in the