Topic ID #8048 - posted 7/7/2010 7:00 AM
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Sophisticated Amputation Methods Used During Stone Age
Jennifer Palmer
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By Zubyre Parvez
Epoch Times Staff Created: Jun 28, 2010 Last Updated: Jul 7, 2010
Stone Age doctors prove to be more medically advanced than we first imagined, as new evidence of surgery undertaken almost 7,000 years ago comes to light. Confirming advanced medical knowledge in 4900 B.C., the findings challenge the existing history of surgery and its development.
In a Neolithic site excavated in 2005 at Buthiers-Boulancourt, 40 miles south of Paris, scientists found the skeleton of an old man buried almost 7,000 years ago. Tests showed an intentional and successful amputation in which a sharpened flint was used to cut the man’s humerus bone above the trochlea indent.
Impressively, the patient was even anesthetized. The limb was cleanly cut off, and the wound was treated in sterile conditions. It has been common knowledge that Stone Age doctors performed trephinations (that is, cutting through the skull), but amputations have been unheard of up until now.
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Epoch Times Staff Created: Jun 28, 2010 Last Updated: Jul 7, 2010
Stone Age doctors prove to be more medically advanced than we first imagined, as new evidence of surgery undertaken almost 7,000 years ago comes to light. Confirming advanced medical knowledge in 4900 B.C., the findings challenge the existing history of surgery and its development.
In a Neolithic site excavated in 2005 at Buthiers-Boulancourt, 40 miles south of Paris, scientists found the skeleton of an old man buried almost 7,000 years ago. Tests showed an intentional and successful amputation in which a sharpened flint was used to cut the man’s humerus bone above the trochlea indent.
Impressively, the patient was even anesthetized. The limb was cleanly cut off, and the wound was treated in sterile conditions. It has been common knowledge that Stone Age doctors performed trephinations (that is, cutting through the skull), but amputations have been unheard of up until now.
Read the rest of the article here.
Post ID#17842 - replied 7/7/2010 8:52 AM
marehart
Agree that a sharp flint knife was the likely tool of choice for this amputation. Do not agree with the speculation presented as fact:
How do they know it was a "sharpened" (Implying it was resharpened) flint knife?
"Impressively, the patient was even anesthetized. The limb was cleanly cut off, and the wound was treated in sterile conditions." Spare me....none of this is less than gross imagination at work; who knows? Could be from researcher or reporter.
This type of story misleads the public and denigrates true scholarship.
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