Egyptian Surgical Instruments When we think about surgery now, it’s all bright lights, steady hands, and a room full of people moving like clockwork. But for most of history, surgery was brutal. It was painful, risky, and often more guesswork than science. The fact that anyone made it out alive feels almost like luck. The earliest surgeons weren’t doctors the way we imagine them. Thousands of years ago, people were doing trepanation, drilling holes in skulls, because they tho