Dr. Walter Freeman’s Frontal Lobotomies at Athens (Ohio) Nation Infirmary
Some chapters in the medical information of Athens County, Ohio, are more notorious or fascinating than that referring to Walter Freeman, M.D., and the more than 200 frontal lobotomies he performed at the Athens State Sanatorium in seven visits between 1953 and 1957.
Until the mesial of the twentieth century, treatment for most inpatients […]