Incredibly, in a small number of early experiments, the instrument used was literally a kitchen ice pick.
In the 1950s, at least 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the United States by hammering an ice pick into patients' brains through their eye sockets.It's true that more than 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S. in the late 1940s and early 1950s by inserting a medical instrument resembling an ice pick through patients' eye sockets and into their brains. In a small number of early experiments, the instrument used was literally a kitchen ice pick. However ...
There was a time when certain psychiatric conditions were so impervious to existing forms of treatment that doctors began experimenting with a type of brain surgery, ultimately dubbed" ," as a last resort. According to an old medical urban legend, during the 1950s these surgeries were performed by literally hammering an ice pick into patient brains through their eye sockets:There's a grain of truth to these claims, but they're also partly false, for reasons we'll explain below. First, let's take a brief look at the history of lobotomies.
of George Washington University developed and touted a streamlined technique known as a"transorbital lobotomy," which consisted of"sedating" a patient with a series of electroconvulsive shocks, then, instead of drilling a hole, inserting an ice pick-like surgical instrument into the brain by way of the patient's eye sockets to sever neural fibers believed to be the cause of certain kinds of mental illness.
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