| Few chapters in the medical history of
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| | Portugese physician who eventually won a
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| Athens County, Ohio, are more notorious
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| | Nobel Prize for his work, reported the
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| or fascinating than that concerning
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| | results of his earliest frontal
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| Walter Freeman, M.D., and the more than
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| | lobotomies in a French medical journal.
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| 200 frontal lobotomies he performed at
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| | Dr. Walter Freeman, a neurologist at
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| the Athens State Hospital in seven visits
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| | George Washington University in
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| between 1953 and 1957.Until the middle of
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| | Washington, D.C., who had met Dr. Moniz a
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| the twentieth century, treatment for most
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| | year earlier, was
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| inpatients in large state hospitals, like
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| | impressed with the report. Within the
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| that in Athens, was limited to providing
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| | same year Dr. Freeman teamed with a
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| a safe and humane environment. Effective
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| | neurosurgeon to perform the operation,
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| drugs for mental illnesses did not become
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| | and over the next decade the partners
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| available until the late 1950s and early
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| | operated on many more cases.
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| 1960s.In 1936 Egas Moniz, M.D., a
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