Extract taken from Stewart Cowley's most excellent book: Do It Yourself Brain
Surgery And Other Home Skills
Brain Surgery For Pleasure Or Profit
You will need:
Scalpel, drill (hand or electric) plus masonry and woodwork bits, surgical
clamps or bulldog clips, two pound hammer, a well honed cold chisel, needles and
waxed thread (any colour), an operating table (a wallpaper-pasting table is
ideal), boiling water, a patient and a clean box to keep the brain parts in.
Although brain surgery is a pursuit undertaken by only a fairly small band
of amateur enthusiasts, its practitioners participate in a long tradition of
medical homecraft dating back to the dawn of civilisation.
The techniques of primate man, however, were scarcely more sophisticated than
simply knocking a hole in the skull and poking around inside, and it is doubtful
that the patient benefited very much from the exercise. Today’s amateur, on
the other hand, has a wealth of knowledge and accumulated experience on which to
draw, and whether his activities are intended to satisfy his own curiosity or
for material enrichment, brain surgery can be a most rewarding pastime.
Unlike many other branches of medical science, as a home brain surgeon you can
achieve dramatic results without the need for elaborate and expensive equipment
or facilities. You can set up your operating table almost anywhere in the house
where you can remain undisturbed. Do remember that some operations take quite a
long time and that it is inadvisable to stop once you are under way. |