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To: KitJ

That creepy black eye crap always reminds me of the ice pick lobotomy stuff.

https://twitter.com/SurgeryLegends/status/1058024352761835520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1058024352761835520&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.com.au%2Flifestyle%2Fhealth%2Fhealth-problems%2Fan-ice-pick-to-the-brain-the-horror-of-the-frontal-lobotomy%2Fnews-story%2F9a3369a1ab0c1bb1250c51068fe1cbc8


309 posted on 10/08/2019 4:33:23 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Freedom or Liberty? Which would you choose?)
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To: Cats Pajamas

I ain’t clickin that stuff, FRen.

Long ago in my studies I read about the trend for icepick lobotomies back in the 40s or 50s.

One fella was so popular, and such an advocate of the procedure, that he would lobotomize two patients at once standing between two adjacent tables. With an icepick in each hand, he would drop them down through the eye and do his little ‘scramble’ and wheel in the next ones.

It always reminds of the revolting tale of poor Rosemary Kennedy. An ‘unwieldy’ child to big bad daddy Joe Kennedy. She was too attractive, so they lobotomized her.

To ‘protect’ the family legacy. Shipped her off to anonymous asylums for the rest of her life. Perhaps a form of sacrifice?

The Kennedys continue to disgust me.

A little sauce on Rosemary’s tragic life: https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/rosemary-kennedy-jfk-sister


334 posted on 10/08/2019 6:44:55 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: Cats Pajamas
"ice pick lobotomy"

Second to abortion on the list of evil medical acts.
764 posted on 10/09/2019 6:16:51 PM PDT by softengine
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