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b: Broca's area (Illustration: F. Geranmayeh, S.L.E. Brownsett, R.J.S. Wise (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/3.0)).
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The first chapter in neurology was composed in the prescience era. Chiseled with flint stones, grisly in nature, it was a narrative where men
trephined human skull to treat such maladies as head injury, epilepsy, and disturbed mind. The ungodly practice survived from the late Stone
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