Throughout mankind’s history, we’ve always tried to fix anything broken – including our bodies. Surgery was first invented during the stone age, when people started cutting holes in their skulls (1). Since then, we’ve progressed a considerable amount, although many of today’s surgical techniques and procedures originate from ancient practices. Tracheotomy Ancient Egyptian artifacts engraved …
The Best Thing Since Sliced Flesh: A history of the surgical scalpel
The surgical scalpel is a tool that has seemingly transcended time– from its beginnings in the Stone Age to the shiny hospital of the modern era. Read on to discover how the surgical scalpel used today came to be. There is evidence of knives being used in medicine as far back as the Middle Stone …