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Trephined Skull © 1992 Scott Lindgren
Trephination is used to make an intentional entry into the skull in order to allow instruments to elevate skull fragments and remove blood clots at the site of the injury. The trephine does not penetrate the brain, and the procedure is more superficial than it might appear. This skull of a German killed by a brick in a riot in Baltimore, 1939, shows a trephination hole next to the site of the fracture and is an example of unsuccessful trephination for a fracture. Shown with a trephine, mid-nineteenth century. Trephine presented to the Museum by Gabriel Tucker, Jr., M.D.
