Nick Pell
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6,773 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard yesterday
Nick Pell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's much more sophisticated, much more antiseptic, surgical, but the basic premise is the same.
You cut someone's head open and you save their lives, which again, it's nuts that some caveman figured this out.
There's a persistent myth about headaches, migraines.
We know that trepanation is not gonna fix this, but if you're getting cluster headaches or you're having fifty gram mall seizures a day, I can see why you would be willing to try just about anything.
Dutch librarian name of
Bart Couja's, I believe I'm saying that correctly, but he also goes by Bart Hughes.
So I'm just gonna refer to him as Hughes, because that I know how to pronounce for the rest of the episode.
He's the guy we mainly have to thank for that.
He popularized Trepanation in the nineteen sixties.
In fact, he drilled a hole into his own head with a dentist drill.
Oh my gosh.
The belief is that you have too much blood in your brain.
And that opening things up is going to relieve the pressure and make it better.
It's really only similar in that it's a quack treatment involving blood.
Bloodletting has to do
With a separate theory that illness is caused by bad blood.
Oh, okay.
It's
too
Yeah, I believe that's it.
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