Brain Surgery

[Intranetusa]

It says in your description of the druids and such they were capable of brain surgery. Now how is that possible?

not brain surgery in the modern sense, but people have been cutting holes in skulls to relieve swelling/pressure since the stone age

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Or to let demons out.

[Afro Thunder]

Now, a better question is, does the patient still function after the procedure?

[Spoofa]

Tidus Pullo did after his little... encounter with a brain surgeon....

(Rome)

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

There is a guy in Africa today (well, he was alive a decade ago) that has had multiple cranal surguries by a shaman. He suffers from reoccuring headaches and was diagonosed with demons living in his head. He has had so many holes drilled in his head that he has to wear a hat at all times since he basically has no top of his skull. Since the brain was unharmed and the skin healed over the wound, he is completely unchanged.

Surgery like Titus Pullo's would have probably resulted in some sort of decreased mental capacities depending on how deep the pot fragment was and where it was. Though there is a 99% chance he would have died of infection. Though surgery like that of HBO's Rome actually did happen (though 50-200 years later). And it was reported as successfully working.

All things considered, brain surgery (especially if it was only drilling in the skull to release pressure) is entirely possible, if the patient doesn't die of infection.

[Spoofa]

Infection appears to have been one if not THE main factor to reasons of death after injury or surgery.