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Ah the good ole days when children and infants were dying left and right, a splinter could mean a slow painful death by infection, and the local doctor prescribes drilling a hole in your head to release bad spirits
Don't forget the "bloodletting". Got to get that bad blood out along with the head spirits.
Some people today practice self-trepanation