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Dr. Walter Freeman's Frontal Lobotomies at Athens (Ohio) State Hospital

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




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