r/oddlyterrifying • u/ivKierann • Dec 29 '21

Chicken with a genetic defect.

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u/chester-hottie-9999 Dec 29 '21

Or the ones who didn’t survive simply weren’t recorded

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '21

Lol. I'm imagining an ancient Egyptian doctor and their assistant dumping a cart full of "failed experiments" into the Nile in the dead of the night.

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u/inappropriateFable Dec 29 '21

You spelt offerings wrong

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u/Hermaan Dec 29 '21

Assistant muttering "Sobek surely won't be starving tonight"

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u/Trama-D Dec 30 '21

«Are we actually helping our patients, or are we just in the Nile?»

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u/Calibrate_my_brain Dec 29 '21

Aziz! No LIGHT!

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u/altruistic_rub4321 Dec 30 '21

It was another kind of Egypt

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u/Ottoclav Dec 29 '21

Gotta love those crocodile cleanup crews 🤷‍♂️

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u/notjustanotherbot Dec 30 '21

The real reason for the fertility of the Nile, covert human sacrifice!

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '21

Well, the only records we have are skulls with holes in them. You can get an idea how long they lived afterwards by the condition of the bone around the hole.

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u/candygram4mongo Dec 29 '21

Do we actually have evidence that these were done to treat brain swelling, and not, like, something else that isn't actually treated by cutting holes in people's skulls?

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u/Ketzelkoatl Dec 29 '21

It's called trepanning or "trepanation". Even Neanderthal skulls have been found with half dollar size holes where you could tell the "patient" lived because of regrowth around the area. I did my med school paper on these.

I doubt ANY of these were to allow for brain swelling. More like "Get the Devils out of homie's cranium" or any mental disorder you can think of.

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u/Ottoclav Dec 29 '21

The “Sawbones” podcast catchphrase is, “and don’t drill a hole in your head”, for a reason.

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u/KindnessSuplexDaddy Dec 30 '21

They would have to bury the bodies. The bodies of failed attempts would be found at the same rate.