The founder of the trepanation movement is a Dutch savant, Dr Bart Hughes.
By liberating his brain from its total imprisonment in his skull, he claimed to have restored its pulsations, increased the volume of blood in it and acquired a more complete, satisfying state of consciousness than grown-up people normally enjoy. The medical and legal authorities reacted to Huges's discovery with horror and rewarded him with a spell in a Dutch lunatic asylum.
An important convert was Julie Felix. She was eager to promote the doctrine of trepanation and recorded some of the propaganda songs which British convert Joey Mellen had composed, including Brainbloodvolume, The Great Brain Robbery and Sugarlack.