Lobotomies make good american citizens
In 1935 a Portuguese neurologis named Egas moniz devised what he believed was the perfect treatment of mental illness. he discovered that by boring into an individual's skull with a surgical pick and severing the prefrontal cortex from the rest of the brain he could make a the most troublesome patients docile. He called the procedure a prefrontal lobotomy, and by the 1940's it had become such a pupular medical technique that Moniz was awarde... Read More
