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| Description | Former ref: AL 1958/30
Was previously DF141/95
Peter Lisowski, Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham, relating to trepanned cranium from Kenya
Loan of an unregistered cast of a trephined Saxon cranium
J Joseph, Anatomy Department, Guy's Hospital, relating to donation of a ‘Jutish’ trepanned skull
Accounts of trepanation operations witnessed among the Aymara and on the Cambridge expedition to Tibesti
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