THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MARCH
1935
HEADACHE AFTER Bronze Age
HEADACHE
Now She's Free from Them
Surgery
“TREPHINED" SKULL DISCOVERED.
TAKEN FROM
THE SEA
"A woman writes:-"I would ko everyone who suffers from headaches to try Kruschen Salts. Before taking "Kruschon I was hardly ever free from
A headache. But since I have been A skull which was trawled from taking it regularly I have hardly had the near on January. 12 three- quarters of a mile off Ovingdean, a headache, for which am Very Sussex, by. Mr. J. Gillan, is con- thankful, for headaches can make one sidered by. Dr. John Beattle, con- feel quite ll. I have been taking that servator of the museum of the small dose of Kruschen every morning Royal College of Suregons, to be- in a glass of warm water before my long to the late Bronze Ago. It broakfast, and I fod so well."—(Mrs.) | belonged to a man over 60 yours AB D
Hondaches can generally be traced of ago, all the sutures belog en- to a disordered stomach and to the tirely obliterated. It is of the unsuspected retention in the system polygonal type which to-day in r of stagnating waste materini which presented by the skull of the AR- not polsons the blood Remove theso tralian aborigine, and was polsons-provent them forming again uncommon in England during our. and you'll never have to worry any own Bronze Ago. The surface and more. And that is Just how Krusched texture of the skull denote that It Salls bring swift and lasting roller had been interred. from hondachos. Kruschen Bälte ald Nature to cleanse your body com- As it was taken from the sea, it pletely of all clogging waste matter, may have been a cliff-burial, the Start on "the little daily dose of fall of the cliff precipitating it on Krusche to-morrow. Then you to the bench or into the son direct will very soon have done with head-and this is perhaps emphasized by the fact that there was a large fall of the cliff during the first
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come from the submerged forest- beds, parts of which are often seen
Baronnes Eloisa de Wagner Wahrborn, self-styled “empresa" of Galapagos, who ruled a group of men on Florena island, where at low tides. It shows no algus
bodies of two men were found under dramatic circumstances, of prolonged rolling. This" skull-
was later reported bound for Australia with Robert Philipson, with piece is composed of both parietals
whom she is shown above. She bad bean believed dead. She also the upper part of the occipital and
In pictured before she exiled herself to the lonely Pacific Island. the upper parts of both temporals. The frontal bone is entirely misa characteristic manner.
with These Incomplete operation ing, together with the lower por operations were performed during signs of repair, which probably tión of both temporals and velife, as a lens reveals the fact means that the patient died before cipital.
that, while some of the little pores the primitive surgeon was able to of the bone are filled up with now finish his operation. This speci- Situated at the fore part of both bone, showing slight reparation, men is in the British Museum. parietals, an Inch from the middle there has also been a great des-The first specimen has the char- lino na either side, are two well-truction
around of bone
the acteristically scraped foramen of defined perforations, That on the orifices, consequent upon a severe Neolithic typo, while the orgin of right side is almost circular is septie periostitis. This latter the second proves it to be of ahape and measures 1 5-16in. in would cover a length of time, Neolithic workmanship. To my antero-posterior diameter and which Dr. Beattle estimates at knowledge there has been, to the 14in. In the lateral, dinmeter. about nix weeks, which means present time, no example of a sur- That on the left parietal is, rough- that the individual survived the gically "holed" Bronze Age skull ly, rhomboidal in shape, the long double operation for six weeks. of British origin. diameter (Jateral) moneuring Great Britain is singularly de- 14 in. and the antero-posterior fcient In prehistoric "trephined": The Ovingdean akull Is there- diameter being 15-16in. Both skulls. Till now only two existed, fore one of only three specimens operations were most probably First and foremost, the "Thames" this country posses848. It performed at the same time. The skull, which exhibits on its vertex unique in two respects; Arst, In
the method employed by the primitive completed operation, in-being the only specimen of a surgeon was that used by men of dividual having made an excellent Bronze Age trephined" skull; the Third or Carnac epoch of the recovery. This specimen was and, secondly, the only specimen. Neolithic Period. This was done dredged from the Thames just In Great Britain with two Bur- LINSTEAD & DAVIS, by scraping the bone with a flint above the place where Hammer-gically made openings of the flako in such a way as to produce smith Bridge now stands. It in in akull" during life. Mr. Henry D. a funnel-shaped hole whose sides the London Museum. The second Roberts, director of the Brighton alope downwards and inwards, to- specimen was taken from a Long Musetim, le to be congratulated on wards the lumen. Both the holes Barrow (Neolithic) at Bisley in becoming possessed of no rare and *ESSC show this scraping method in a Gloucestershire. This showa an 60 valuable an exhibit,
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