Lobotomist

The doctor Walter Freeman was a neurologist who was incredibly intrigued by how to cure mental diseases, and he worked in a mental institution, and back in that date, these places were highly unethical to put a living person, they were so disgusting they got to the point where they were called "snake pits". He studied the brain in the morgue of the mental institution that he worked in of the people who had mental diseases and had passed away, here he did not find anything relevant, he noticed no difference in the brains from people with mental diseases from those who were normal, and then almost giving up on his cure for mental diseases, he saw a book by the first doctor who was studying the different sections the brain was divided into, and how the "frontal lobe" controlled emotions, so he thought if a brain surgery was done to cut the connection from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain, people who suffered from mental diseases would be "cured", but his surgery was quite expensive and risky, and un-practical, since it required to drill a hole in the brain and then cut the connection, it had a high chance of an internal hemorrhage happening and therefore the patient dying. Walter Freeman became intrigued, but was limited since he had no license to practice surgery, and so he had a surgeon partner conducting the surgeries, but he directed his every move, and after a few surgeries he searched for a more efficient and a way to "mass produce" these surgeries, and found an entrance that lead directly to the frontal lobe, which was to go through the upper part of the eye, and then he needed a sharp object he could use, and saw an ice pick at home and decided that would work. His first lobotomies were conducted with ice picks that came directly from home. His first of these surgeries was a "success" in a way, his patient had a drastic change in mood, she was happier and capable of enjoying life, but there were side effects and complications in his other surgeries, such as ending up in a vegetable state, loss of memory, a return of this mental illness that was supposed to be cured, and in drastic cases, death from a hemorrhage. The lobotomy was seen as a cure and the person responsible for the creation of it, the guy with the original idea, was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine, Walter Freeman was seen as a hero until a few years later, the effect of the lobotomy was put in doubt with all the long term effects it had, and then in 1954 with the invention of a new pill, seen as a chemical lobotomy, it put Walter Freeman's lobotomy in risk and eventually terminating it, he conducted this lobotomy on only a few children, and the story seen in this video, we saw the actual child who the lobotomy was conducted in, and he seemed normal, but it was brutal what was done to him. In conclusion, for the limiting solutions to help control the disease, the lobotomy perhaps may have been a chance to live life, but it had its high possible and drastic effects.