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The Nobel lobotomy laureate, Dr. Moniz, was also the inventor of cerebral angiography and knew his way around the brain. His operations were actually leucotomies, precise holes cut in the white matter of the frontal lobes, under general anesthesia and with direct visualization of the brain.
Dr. Walter Freeman was the American who invented the "icepick" technique whereby you ECT the patient into a stupor, literally hammer a probe into the skull and just, you know, wiggle it around for a bit. This took a lot less time, no surgical training and no anesthesiologist's fees, so he drove around the US for decades, performing assembly-line lobotomies in institutions and taking photos for the press.
So there's much more of a spiritual kinship between Dr. Kathy Rumer and Dr. Walter "not a trained neurosurgeon but $25 is $25" Freeman. I don't think it mattered much to the patients who was the one the cutting on their brain, but Freeman was responsible for a hundred times more of them, just by the personal numbers, and that's before you account for his salesmanship and good eye for PR.
Dr. Walter Freeman was the American who invented the "icepick" technique whereby you ECT the patient into a stupor, literally hammer a probe into the skull and just, you know, wiggle it around for a bit. This took a lot less time, no surgical training and no anesthesiologist's fees, so he drove around the US for decades, performing assembly-line lobotomies in institutions and taking photos for the press.
So there's much more of a spiritual kinship between Dr. Kathy Rumer and Dr. Walter "not a trained neurosurgeon but $25 is $25" Freeman. I don't think it mattered much to the patients who was the one the cutting on their brain, but Freeman was responsible for a hundred times more of them, just by the personal numbers, and that's before you account for his salesmanship and good eye for PR.










