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• - Overview focusing on the work of Bart Huges.
  
• - Article on trepanation from Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions by John Michell.
  
• - The experience of a person who had a hole drilled through his skull. Includes photos of the procedure.
  
• - Article by Jon Bowen discussing this procedure citing the pros and cons.
  
• - A newsbrief from Archaeology Magazine describing a 7,000-year-old burial in France that has yielded the earliest unequivocal evidence for trepanation.
  
• - A personal interpretation of this procedure by Mei Nah Khoo. From Metaphysical Insights archives.
  
• - An interview with self-trepanner Dr. Bart Huges as questioned by Joe Mellen. The Transatlantic Review No. 23, Winter 1966-1967.
  
• - Information on trepanation, the art of drilling holes into people's skulls.
  
• - Backgroung information on trepanation and the risks associated with it.
  
• - An indepth source of information on medical and historical aspects of this ancient surgical procedure. Includes references and citations as well and advanced reading suggestions.
  
• - Scientific article by Daniel Witt of Temple University.