Barbarian medicinal prowess

[moonburn]

the reports of removing splintered skull bones are nothing new

the incas besides being able to shape skulls also had a kind of know how to remove splinted skull bones

even today in africa there are society´s who make those operations based on the principle that the "bad spirits" need to be removed (when someone as a mental illness they pierce the skull to remove the bad wind´s spirits or whatever)
(i learned this in a documentary about pain and how diferent people and diferent societies adress them since those african society´s have no anesthetics while the theory for the incas defend they used coca plants)

as for celtic society organisation i think we can all agree it´s something beteween the original comunitarism (do not confuse with nowadas comunism) of ancient societies and the civilization where you have a strict law saying whats your obligations and duty´s and what you shall receive in return (and civilization means you either have the coin or you will die since it´s a pre wellfare system )

what i do find most amazing is ozzie the iron age frozen man found in the alps who as evidences of reumatism treatments using hot iron´s on the joints wich ofc is for me far more amazing then the use of plants and herbs to treat some illness since the native americans and almost all others groups in the world catched up to fairly easy (he also had herbs from northern italy that is suspected of being for medicinal use but nothing as been proven yet i think)

those reumatism treatments using hot irons only as similarities with some tibetan tribes so not all humans knew hot to adress that problem efectively (or at least other cultures found other solutions for these problems probably drugs to make the body numb instead of techniques to get the body fully functional)

just my 2 cents for the debate

as for fonts i have once again none but if you think i might be on to something www.google.com shouldn´t be so hard to use and you get the bonus of both correcting me and improving the knowledge of the rest of the comunity

[A Very Super Market]

Well, the fact that it apparently worked is tied to it existing. There would be no reason for them to continue holding these beliefs if all it resulted in was gangrene and death.

[Macilrille]

Ôtzi, not Ozzie if you will excuse my correction. I have seen him in Bolzano/Bozen, nice museum and his gear is terrific.

[Brennus]

Ôtzi isn't Iron Age he is Neolithic

[Macilrille]

Indeed, I think the guy did mention that somewhere in his post though, it seems to span a lot of cultures.

Ôtzi still has some cool gear.

[athanaric]

As a matter of fact, it's Ötzi, with German/Swedish/Turkish "ö"...

[Macilrille]

Yeps, notice my keyboard sometimes messing with me. I am danish, I read Swedish often.