Hoppy
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Hi Mauris, Sounds a bit like this to me.
Stone age man's cure for headache.
Headaches are bothersome things, people have been annoyed by them for a long time, seven thousand years at least, and probably longer. We are all quite willing, when afflicted with a headache, to agree with the people of the old stone age that a headache is a demon and we would be willing to do most anything to get rid of it. The pain whether due to a blow on the head, indigestion, nervousness or other causes certainly reminds one of a demon and it is readily understood how ancient man should have conceived the idea of releasing this demon which was bothering him. He devised a remedy which certainly was an effective cure for headache wether the pain was due to eye strain, or brain tumor, skull fracture or nervousness, although it must be admitted that his-cure was worse than the pain. primitive man devised his curative measures as a phase of his religious beliefs ,hence the cure adopted for headaches was a religious rite. The operation was performed by a Shaman or Medicine man in some remote fastness of his region and have the patient remained until completely recovered. This treatment consisted in opening the skull in a variety of ways to relieve the pain, or as the stone age men thought, to let out the demon. men in the stone age phase of their culture whether in Peru, Mexico, France, Karylia or the South Sea Islands practiced this method of relief and it is said to be still employed in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia and in northern Africa.This ancient surgical art, which forms the very beginnings of prehistoric surgury, seems to have been developed first in the region just north of Paris near the Seine and Oise rivers some seven or eight thousand years ago, in the Dolmens, or burial mounds, scientists have found the ancient skull of people who had suffered headache and who had their skulls trepanned or opened to release the headache demon. No special class of individuals seems to have been favored since the operation was performed on man,woman, and child, apparently without respect to either age or sex. It's frequency is attested by the great number of skulls exhibiting the surgical openings. In one burial mound in France yielding the bones of 120 individuals more than 40 showed the effects of trepannation.
I would seek a headache specialist.
Hoppy.
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