Cranial Surgery - Part 1

Born 1943. Educated Craig y nos preparatory school Swansea, Ellesmere College, St. John's College Cambridge and St. Thomas's Hospital London. Trained in neurosurgery at Queen Square London, Frenchay Hospital Bristol and the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Practised as a neurosurgeon in Bergen from 1979 to 1993 and again from 2007 to 2010, when he retired. Between 1985 and 1990 undertook the work in Oslo which formed the basis for a doctoral thesis on intracranial epidural bleeding. Between 1993 and and 2001 travelled the world teaching Gamma Knife neurosurgery and from 2001 to 2007 was the medical director of the Gamma Knife Center in Cairo. Since retirement in 2010 had one year teaching neurology to undergraduate medical students in Shantou in China. Since 2011 has been engaged in researching and publishing papers on neurosurgical history.

• ForewordJeremy GanzAcknowledgementsJeremy GanzDedicationJeremy GanzSection I BACKGROUND1. Basic ConsiderationsJeremy Ganz2. Trepanning by DrillingJeremy Ganz3. Prehistoric or Current Primitive Cranial OperationsJeremy GanzSection II: DIFFERENT PERIODS AND LOCATIONS4. Hippocrates (ca 460 BC to ca 370 BC)Jeremy Ganz5. Anatomy after HippocratesJeremy Ganz6. Rome - Celsus (ca 25 BC to ca. 50 AD)Jeremy Ganz7. Rome – Galen (129 to ca. 216)Jeremy Ganz8. Europe following GalenJeremy Ganz9. Outside EuropeJeremy Ganz10. Emigration of Greek Knowledge to the Arab WorldJeremy Ganz11. Late Middle Ages - EuropeJeremy Ganz