This occasioned his going through the operation called trepanning, which is performed by an engine like a coffee-mill, which being fixed on the bruised part of the bone, is turned round, and cuts out all the black till the edges appear white and sound. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)
Known as trepanning, it was an ancient procedure and a desperate one. ❋ Barry Strauss (2006)
I made the diagnosis that a splinter of bone was pressing upon the brain, and that the surgical operation known as trepanning was required. ❋ Unknown (1904)
This is known as trepanning and was used up till the middle ages for headache treatment, now only used in a more advanced way to treat epidural and subdural hematomas or other intracranial disease.
The trade of "trepanning" the unfortunates and transporting them and selling their term of service was not by several degrees as bad as the African slave-trade; but it was of the same sort, and the deadly horrors of its "middle passage" were hardly less. ❋ Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1868)
But I wasn't sure quite what to make of it as I glanced up at a recent episode of the Beeb's children's show, Horrible Histories, with the sound off, only to glimpse a cuddly, laughing puppet rat appear at the bottom of the screen to spell out the word "trepanning". ❋ Unknown (2010)
We can achieve that remarkable feat of thought transference without the pain, drilling, and bloodshed of trepanning. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)
None of them --- Franklin possibly excepted --- envisioned X-rays, CAT scans, heart and kidney transplants, chemotherapy, blood pressure medication, anti-depressants, or any form of successful brain surgery more advanced than trepanning. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Though occasionally done today for “legitimate” medical purposes — in the case of brain swelling, for instance, after traumatic brain injury — it is also practiced by quacks, as in the 2000 case of two men from Cedar City, Utah, who were prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license for trepanning a woman to treat her depression and chronic fatigue syndrome. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Isn't there evidence of trepanning from way back in the Neolithic? ❋ Carla (2010)
Not doing it, but...maybe trepanning to reduce pressure inside? ❋ E_moon60 (2010)
That fat strumpet of yours did me a good t urn, trepanning me to profit and position, 'though she didn't know it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Of course, you could argue that there's no need to worry, since advanced aliens, able to communicate across the vast voids of space, will be benevolent, enlightened beings for whom aggression is as archaic as using trepanning to treat a migraine. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Have you not been sucking your laudanum, trepanning your skull with a Makita and smacking yourself in the head with a brick until you see the harrowing vision? ❋ Unknown (2010)
From that point of view, the speculative nostrums of the Keynesians look as dangerously daft as 18th century physicians bleeding cholera patients or trepanning madmen, and the conservative discipline of “supply-side economics,” with its emphasis on immediately reducing the extent to which government screws with the economy, seems like Hippocratic primum non nocere wisdom. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This [TREPANATION] [in my head] has provided me with new [insight]...everyone should have one ❋ Captain Jen (2003)
[serach] for trepan on [google] or [ww].bmezine.com ❋ Man Cabbage (2003)
"[Bulletproof] was trepanned by TheBurntOne's MK23" ❋ Dtrax (2005)
