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Cas singulier de trépanation chez le Incas.

BROCA, Pierre Paul (1824 – 1880) Wikipedia

Publication Details

Bulletin Mémoire Société Anthropologie de Paris, 2, 403-08. 1867 CE.

Broca attributed a defect in an ancient Peruvian skull to antemortem trepanation; prior to this paleopathologists and paleoanthropologists were unaware that the Incas practiced trepanation.

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