How to pronounce “trepan” in English

And the answer is people survived a lot more often than you might think. We have lots of examples of skulls with holes in them where you can see new bone growth around the rim of the skull, whichproves that the person must have survived this trepanation. And especially in the Viking times, they would have had ways to combat infections. One way was discovered in what was called a leechbook. Leeches yield slang for doctor. They would actually use leeches to draw blood off people. And in this leech book, a couple of modern scholars, one a historian and one a microbiologist, found