19th Century Neurosurgical Instruments

Sounds like something a psychiatrist would use to destroy his patient.

This looks like the “What is it?” home game.

Its funny to see how closely they resemble my set of drafting tools from the 80′s, with the flat valvet case and layout

There are a fair number of people (even Westerners) who still believe in trepanning to cure a variety of ills… It’s actually rather mild compared to all the “routine” lobotomies which were performed into the late 20th century.

Brain surgery hasn’t come to far from these prehistoric implements. Now the trephinning is done by drill and is so modern. Drill at lest 3 hole in the skull; connect them with a cutting drill with a stop to prevent it from digging into the brain; and pop off the skull flap with a wedge and we have access to the brain. Mind those hands so we don’t have any excess brain damage.

where do they use these things? zombies?

btw.. where is the screwdriver?