Do you take yourself too seriously? Are you in major need of a sense of humour? A lobotomy may help lighten you up so you can enjoy life, instead of spending the rest of your days as an angry troll!
Cruising around the country in his “Lobotomobile,” Dr. Walter Freeman coined the visited mental institutions all over the United States performing prefrontal lobotomy and transorbital, aka “icepick,” surgeries on the mentally ill. He is estimated to have performed almost 3,500 surgeries, including one on JFK’s sister, Rosemary Kennedy in 1941, who went from a rebellious 23-year-old young woman to incontinent and with the mental capacity of a 2-year-old at the hands of Dr. Freeman and his surgeon partner, Dr. James Watts, and she remained institutionalized for the remainder of her life. Despite this, and the controversial, dangerous and unproven nature of the surgery, Freeman believed his psychosurgery cured everything from schizophrenia to depression. In 1942, he and Dr. Watts co-authored the medical text Psychosurgery: Intelligence, Emotion and Social Behavior Following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Mental Disorders, from which the following before-and-after shots are taken from. The transorbital surgery was reportedly quick, but done without anesthesia and without gloves or mask.
Just look at the results below, and ask your doctor for more information!
Dr. Freeman in his Lobotomobile
Sources:
Rowland, Lewis (April 2005). “Walter Freeman’s Psychosurgery and Biological Psychiatry: A Cautionary Tale”. Neurology Today 5 (4): 70–72.
James LaFrance
October 11, 2014 at 8:41 am
You looking for a profession after the Army?
Joel Spector
October 11, 2014 at 2:08 am
Brian James I thought of you
Ernani Andrade
October 10, 2014 at 2:57 pm
Arthur Limeira
Oscar Gonzalez Munoz
October 10, 2014 at 11:26 am
Happy mental health day!
Ying Chen
October 10, 2014 at 10:14 am
Rachel
Jon Peters
October 10, 2014 at 9:56 am
Now I guess I’ll have to tell ’em
That I got no cerebellum
Cosmic Art
October 10, 2014 at 1:48 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0aNILW6ILk
Cosmic Art
October 10, 2014 at 1:45 am
Dr freeman’s technic
Martin Smrek
October 10, 2014 at 1:27 am
Dr. Freeman in his Lobotomobile 😀 😀 😀 http://www.cvltnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20131026_133743.jpeg
Martin Sciurus Met
October 10, 2014 at 12:51 am
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
Brow Ze Wush Bear
October 10, 2014 at 12:32 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom we’ve just now got over medieval practices..
Tobæus Tapetrve
October 10, 2014 at 12:09 am
Hard to believe that only 70 years ago, we were still pushing sharp objects through peoples’ brainpans to bring them to heel.