This is a study of the evolution of the principles and techniques of cranial surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century. The methods of conveying information by text and image are considered.
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Table of Contents
ForewordJeremy Ganz
Acknowledgements
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Dedication
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Section I BACKGROUND
1. Basic Considerations
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2. Trepanning by Drilling
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3. Prehistoric or Current Primitive Cranial Operations
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Section II: DIFFERENT PERIODS AND LOCATIONS
4. Hippocrates (ca 460 BC to ca 370 BC)
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5. Anatomy after Hippocrates
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6. Rome Celsus (ca 25 BC to ca. 50 AD)
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7. Rome Galen (129 to ca. 216)
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8. Europe following Galen
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9. Outside Europe
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10. Emigration of Greek Knowledge to the Arab World
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11. Late Middle Ages Europe
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Authors
Jeremy Christopher Ganz (Retired) Department of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. Born 1943. Educated Craig y nos preparatory school Swansea, Ellesmere College, St. John's College Cambridge and St. Thomas's Hospital London. Trained in neurosurgery at Queen Square London, Frenchay Hospital Bristol and the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Practised as a neurosurgeon in Bergen from 1979 to 1993 and again from 2007 to 2010, when he retired. Between 1985 and 1990 undertook the work in Oslo which formed the basis for a doctoral thesis on intracranial epidural bleeding.Between 1993 and and 2001 travelled the world teaching Gamma Knife neurosurgery and from 2001 to 2007 was the medical director of the Gamma Knife Center in Cairo. Since retirement in 2010 had one year teaching neurology to undergraduate medical students in Shantou in China. Since 2011 has been engaged in researching and publishing papers on neurosurgical history.
