Bart Huges

Hugo Bart Huges (also Hughes) (April 23, 1934 – ca. September 12, 2004) was a Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation. He attended, but did not complete, medical school at the University of Amsterdam, and 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.". He also published "Trepanation: A Cure for Psychosis" in which he expanded upon his theory as well as 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.

External links

• International Trepanation Advocacy Group
• Washington Post article
• Permanently Stoned - Bart Huges pierced his own skull with a Black & Decker electric drill on 6 January 1965
• Cabinet Magazine article on trepanation, Like a Hole in the Dead