Trephination, Ancient Aliens, and Spanish Fly
This blog serves as an equipment guide for implants and such. Included is a video on performing Digital Nerve Blocks. I'm still going to fiddle around with it. I think the section on suture knots needs more info/etc.
Implanting a Magnet II: Trephination, Ancient Aliens, and Spanish Fly
Please let me know if you find it informative. Or if its crap tell me that too.
Implanting a Magnet II: Trephination, Ancient Aliens, and Spanish Fly
Please let me know if you find it informative. Or if its crap tell me that too.
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You can determine someones background a bit from which they choose. As the tool is pretty much always called a trephine, trephinate denotes a medical background, whereas when you see trepan or trepanation, it's generally someone with an anthropological background. Weird eh?
Having performed self-surgery twice now, once to implant a parylene coated magnet in my finger and another to remove a non-functioning RFID implant from my hand, I can attest to the accuracy of the information provided in the article, which goes even beyond my own research into surgical procedure. I would also suggest a thorough study of the anatomy of the hand to make certain that you don't inject lidocaine into a vein. Knowing I was not near a vein gave me much more confidence in self-administering the anesthetic, which could cause serious complications if misused.
Once the follow-up article is posted, please post the link to that here as well.
Turns out... she's Hapsburg. For those of you unfamiliar, the Hapsburgs were a royal line in Europe with such extensive inbreeding that they all ended up with genetic disorders (mostly in the spanish branch of the family, although it was practiced by others). She has the classic inbred Hapsburg jaw. Not that this really has anything to do with Trepanation. It just seemed a revelation to me. Ha!