Tuesday, 8 November 2011

The strange and curious history of lobotomy

8 November 2011
Last updated at 10:48










By Hugh Levinson
BBC News




It's 75 years since the first lobotomy was performed in the US, a procedure later described by one psychiatrist as "putting in a brain needle and stirring the works". So how did it come to be regarded as a miracle cure?
Deep in the archives of London's Wellcome Collection,

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