Re: Skull find reveals ancient brain surgery nearly 1,800 years ago

On Mar 14, 5:33 am, JTEM <jte...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>  VtSkier <VtSk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > When I was in high school, 50 years ago, I was fascinated
> > by an archeology book which showed many skulls which had
> > had this operation and the patient had lived many years
> > after the operation, 12,000 years ago.
>
> It's fascinating to see "Agamemnon" getting excited about
> evidence suggesting that the Greeks were so far behind
> everybody else...

JTEM, you are just a pathetic compulsive liar! Your ancestors were
laughed at by the Glorious Greeks when they were trying to reverse
their cir***cision and make some Gymnastics in Jerusalem!
I elevate you to human level by remind you that no one reads or write
anything about Maimonides, not even your Rabbits!
Plato is a different thing altogether!
Should one of your kind become doctor he takes the Hippocratic oath
(not some mumbo-jumbo of your ancestors).

The first that cured a hydrocephalus jtem by brain surgery was a GREEK
Physician.

Read something requiring brain work not the stuff that any fanatic can
put in the internet!

E.G. "Galen on the Seat of the Intellect: Anatomical Experiments and
Philosophical Tradition"
by Teun Tieleman, published in Science and Mathematics in Ancient
Greek Culture, edited by C.J.Tulpin and T.E.Rihll. pp 256-273.

It starts with the phrase
"Galen's vivisection experiments concerned with the nervous system may
rank among the most sophisticated known from ancient sources. Galen
appears to inaugurate a new era by systematically working his way
along the spinal chord and nerves, making incisions and carefully
recording the resultant phenomena of paralysis. ..."

For your knowledge the vivisections were performed on pigs of the
IEREMIAS type.

It goes on with some pages of heavy discussion about the Seat of the
intellect among the various schools, Medicinal and Philosophical. And
it finishes with

"Looking forward in time, we get an impression of Galen's achievement
when we note that no proper  theory of experimentation took shape
before the 17th century. Renaissance Scientists such as Zabarella
(1533-89) or the young Galileo(1564-1642) still engaged in
experimentation without a full-blown experimental method. In this
respect their work did not appreciably advance beyond the situation we
have encountered in Galen's "On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and
Plato". This too is a measure of his achievement."

Do you read that, asshole?
Your fanatics, incompetent Arabs and Jews are presented by the
wretched propagandists of your type as good physicians! Ha, ha, ha!
They achieved NOTHING! From Galen to 17th century!
One and a half millenium lost for humanity because of the Judaeo-
Christian-Muslim monotheistic mumbo-jumbo and the incompetent Arabs
and Jews!

Sigge