In folklore medicine, one method of providing the disease with means of escape was to:

The method which is used to provide the medicine was to make a hole of 2.5 cm to 5 cm across the skull of the patient, this is also known as the practice of trepanning, or trephining.
Folk medicine is also known as indigenous medicine, traditional medicine or domestic medicine and it consist of aspects of medical that are related to traditional knowledge.

The answer to this will be from your lab notes/procedure. it would be best to ask another student who participated in the lab as we do not know what was done, what enzyme or if the temperature is celsius or fahrenheit. if i were to guess though i'd say the rate stopped due to enzyme denturing at high temperature

Many archeologists and anthropologists disagree with dr. thorne's view.  thorne strongly believes that what many calls "homo erectus"  was in fact  homo sapiens,  and that they migrated out of africa almost 2 million years ago and dispersed throughout europe and asia. that's way different  from what scientists have always believed about the evolution of the species.