Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery



In 1873, the first evidence of trephined neolithic skulls was discovered. There are records of neurosurgery in Babylon and Egypt as early as three thousand years before Christ. Evidence of centuries old brain surgeries have been discovered in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. Neuroscience took many accepted forms prior to the 20th Century. This exhibit is dedicated to the world of neuroscience before Cushing and Fulton and Dandy. A medical world which was often dictated by spirits and pseudoscience. Click on a topic below to enter a world before CT scans, before antibiotics, before modern medicine. Suggested Reading: Greenblatt, SH, Dagi, TF, Epstein, MH: A History of Neurosurgery in its Scientific and Professional Contexts. Park Ridge, IL, The American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1997.