ONE OF THE MOST DEVELOPED PRECOLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS WAS THE INCA EMPIRE; STRETCHING THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS OF ANDES, IN TODAY´S,ECUADOR,PERU,COLOMBIA,ETC...THE INCA CIVILIZATION WAS OUTSTANDING BECAUSE OF ITS COLOSSAL ARCHIQUECTURE, ITS CITIES WITH PAVED AND REGULAR STREETS, TEMPLES,AGRICULTURAL TERRACES,AND SO ON.
JUST RECENTLY, ANOTHER AMAZING SKILL OF THE INCAS HAS BEEN REVEALED: THEY SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED TREPANATIONS, SURGERIES AIMED AT REMOVING SMALL PARTS OF THE PATIENT´S SKULL TO TREAT HEAD INJURIES.
TREPANATION SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN USED TO TREAT HEAD INJURIES EXPRERIENCED BY MEN DURING COMBAT. TODAY, THIS SURGERY IS EMPLOYED TO RELIEVE PRESSURE, INDUCED BY FLUID BULDUP CAUSED BY SEVERE HEAD TRAUMA.
THE NEW FINDINGS SHOWS THAT INCAS SURGEONS HAD DEVELOPED A DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF CRONIAL ANATOMY. INCA HEALERS CARFULLY AVOIDED AREAS OF THE SKULL WHERE CUTTING WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO CAUSE BRAIN INJURY, BLEEDING, OR INFECTIONS.
THE OPERATION WERE CONDUCTED WITHOUT THE MODERN BENEFITS OF ANESTHESIA AND ANTIBIOTICS, BUT MEDICINAL PLANTS WERE PROBABLY USED. THEY WERE AWARE OF MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF MANY WILD PLANTS INCLUDING COCA AND WILD TABACO. SOMETIMES, THE PATIENT DIED FOR OVERDOSE OF IT. SO IT´S KIND TRAGIC AND CRUEL, IN CASE THE PATIENT DIED DURING THE TRAPANATION SURGERY, THEY REMOVED RECTANGULAR PIECE OF BANE WAS PUT BACK IN ITS PLACE BEFORE THE BODY WAS BURIED. "IT´S ASTANDING THAT (SUCH A LARGE PORCENTAGE) OF THE POPULATION UNDERWENT SKULL SURGERY AND THAT NOT SO MANY SURVIVED"
INCAS CIVILIZATION IS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF OUR GROWTH AS A HUMANITY SOCIETY.natali
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