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
Rosemary was probably the only decent one out of the bunch.
Shameful.
I don’t know what’s worse; lobotomizing or aborting full term babies. It’s pretty sick.
Ugh, yes, that was “the guy” the one who “invented” the operation, he was a neurologist not a surgeon, so he had a surgeon that helped him develop the technique. He would drive around the country and stop at various mental institutions and basically say bring me all the patients you want lobotomized and then he would do them, twenty, thirty, forty at a time.
Then they came up with strong antipsychotic meds and were able to chemically lobotomize so the operation went away. But the meds remain. Why, J&J just got hit with an 8 billion dollar judgement yesterday for Risperidol causing gynocomastia (irreversible breast development) in young boys.