Nick Pell
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6,131 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 13 Sep
Nick Pell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah,
it's your brain bag.
Yeah.
Fortunately for everyone involved, neither of us are doctors.
It does though.
It prov it provides your main line of defense against trauma and
It keeps the blood and the waste
out of your central nervous system.
It's a major medical emergency.
Yeah, you need an experienced neurosurgeon right away if you have a big hole in your head.
That's not a joke, right?
So sometimes it would be done
After the person died to let their soul out in ancient China, there was some belief that it opened up communication with the dead or with spirits.
By the way, fun fact, we didn't have any archaeological evidence that trepanation existed in China until two thousand seven.
Yep.
And it was like the one place where they hadn't found it yet.
This is going to be a question at your bar trivia night, and you're going to be glad you listened to this episode.
That's right.
The classical world, the Greeks and the Romans, by the time we get to that part of human history, it's the main treatment for epilepsy and other similar disorders.
Hippocrates and Galen both recommended it for the purpose of treating epilepsy.
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