Medicine

Ancient skeleton reveals oldest amputation

A skeleton discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves amputation surgery was successfully carried out about 31,000 years ago, scientists said on Sept. 7.

Previously, the earliest known amputation involved a 7,000-year-old skeleton found in France, and experts believed such operations only emerged in settled agricultural societies.

Διάσημοι στέλνουν τις ευχές τους στην Τζέιν Φόντα μετά την ανακοίνωσή της για διάγνωση με καρκίνο

Διαγνώστηκε με λέμφωμα non-Hodgkin

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