Yeah, Chop out her brains.
That’s the ticket.
—”Yeah, Chop out her brains.”
Way worse than you can imagine.
This was an ‘ice pick’ lobotomy.
GRIM STUFF.
” His transorbital lobotomy involved taking a kitchen ice pick, later refined into a more proficient instrument called a leucotome, and hammering it through the thin layer of skull in the corner of each eye socket. The pick would then be scrambled from side to side in order to damage the frontal lobe. The process took about 10 minutes and could be performed anywhere, without the assistance of a surgeon.
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“ Despite a 14 per cent fatality rate, Freeman performed 3,439 lobotomies in his lifetime.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jan/13/neuroscience.medicalscience