The article by Lv and Wu has shed much light on Chinese prehistoric trepanation. Because of the lack of translations of the specific writings from the Chinese language, owing to "the solitary instance of any attention consciously paid to Chinese writing by early Western medical science"(8), the importance of findings in the Far East and China has too long been underestimated in the West. These authors wish to correct current opinion, establishing that more trepanated skulls have come to light in China than in all the rest of the world.
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