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Labotomies
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On his victim human beings
Walter Jackson Freeman II, MD performed
2500 icepick lobotomies
while countless animal and frog
victims are impaled by stereotaxic
devices which keep their brain electrodes
in place or are pithed with icepicks.
Should these butcherings be called
labotomies?
saiom shriver
Footnote:
"About 50,000 people received lobotomies in the United States, most of them between 1949 and 1952. About 10,000 of these procedures were transorbital lobotomies. The rest were mostly prefrontal lobotomies. Walter Freeman performed about 3,500 lobotomies during his career, of which 2,500 were his ice-pick procedure. Nov 16, 2005"
Frequently Asked Questions About Lobotomies : NPR
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014565
