cranial trephination is a technique which was used by ancient people to trephine skulls with some instruments. there are different types of trephination, the most common and primitive of which were trianglular and quadrangular in shape. a group burial was found in an archeological excavation of burnt city in sistan province in 1977. out of the 13 skeletons, one skeleton belonged to a 13th years...

OBSTETRIC shock is one of the most serious of the accidents associated with childbirth. Puerperal sepsis is the only condition responsible for a larger proportion of maternal deaths. Out of 141 consecutive deaths occurring in the Belfast Maternity Hospital, and the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, during the ten years, 1927-36, twenty-three, i.e., 16.3 per cent., were due to obstetric shock. ...