Inca Doctors Were Better at Skull Surgery Than American Surgeons 400 Years Later
So many holes.
MICHELLE STARR
12 JUN 2018
Scientists studying the skulls of long-dead Incas have made a startling discovery: the patients somehow had twice the survival rate after skull surgery than those operated on during the American Civil War - some 400 years later.
This flies in the face of western notions of technical superiority, and contradicts previous assumptions that the technology and training of the American doctors would automatically result in a better outcome.
https://www.sciencealert.com/inca-trepanation-survival-rates-extremely-high-compared-to-civil-war-surgeons
