Bart Huges

Huges trepanning himself in 1965

Hugo Bart Huges (also Hughes) (April 23, 1934 – August 30, 2004) was a Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation.[1] He attended medical school at the University of Amsterdam, but was refused a degree due to his advocacy for marijuana use.[2] In 1964 he published "The Mechanism of Brainbloodvolume ('BBV')" (also known as "Homo Sapiens Correctus"), a scroll in which he proposed that trepanation could be used to enhance brain functionality by balancing the proportion of blood and cerebral spinal fluid. Hughes believed that, when mankind began to walk upright, our brains drained of blood and that trepanation allowed the blood to better flow in and out of the brain, causing a permanent "high". Using a foot-operated electric dentist drill, Huges drilled a hole in his skull on January 6, 1965.[3] He also published "Trepanation: A Cure for Psychosis", in which he expanded upon his theory, and an autobiography, The Book With The Hole, in 1972.

His writings influenced the British-born Joey Mellen to undergo self-trepanation, which he documented in a book called Bore Hole. Huges died on August 30, 2004 at the age of 70 , of heart disease and is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.

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References

  1. ↑ Turner, Christopher (Winter 2007–08). "Like a Hole in the Head". Cabinet.
  2. ↑ Colton, Michael (May 31, 1998). "You Need It Like... ...a Hole in the Head?". The Washington Post.
  3. ↑ "Today in 1965: 6 January - Permanently 'Stoned'". International Institute of Social History. Retrieved 9 December 2012.


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