Looks like a horror movie waiting to happen, and some people say the world is getting worse every year!
Actually, the trephine, or a variation thereof, is used routinely today in neurosurgery. The ones today are usually run with compressed gas, or electric.
I use a radiofrequency device to remove tonsils. It coagulates and cuts at the same time. Have seen elderly people who probably had the guillotine as children, and about half the tonsil is usually left behind. Never seen the bilateral device before. Way cool.
I use a radiofrequency device to remove tonsils. It coagulates and cuts at the same time. Have seen elderly people who probably had the guillotine as children, and about half the tonsil is usually left behind. Never seen the bilateral device before. Way cool.
This thread is very instructive, thanks for posting!
Seeing that corroded old circumcision knife make my knees weak...hello one week of nightmares. Thanks. 
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I love how the Trephine was never cleaned. So nasty.
Seeing that corroded old circumcision knife make my knees weak...hello one week of nightmares. Thanks.
Here's an old family heirloom, a bris knife that has been passed down through generations in the Ouch family.
Wow....amazing advancements in Medical Science.
It doesn't surprise me though. It is less invasive than cutting everything open and destroying for ex, a foot and having it never useful again. I myself would have some difficulties with it being done to me.
Trepanation? Yeah, I need that like I need a hole in the head. 
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Agreed.
