In fact, it destroys brain tissue, making people numb and emotionless, like a walking zombie; everyone from the sister of the President of the United States to a crying child of several years old has been a victim of this surgery;

This operation is nicknamed "soul extraction".

It is promoted that mental patients can be reborn after the operation;

In fact, it destroys brain tissue, making people numb and emotionless, like a walking zombie;

Even the sister of the President of the United States, Children as young as a few years old and crying have all been victims of this operation;

The famous Kennedy family in the United States in the last century was at its peak, and many outstanding figures appeared.

But what few people know is that the Kennedy family also gave birth to an imbecile child, Rosemary Kennedy, who was mentally retarded due to a birth accident.

As the only mentally retarded child in the elite family, Rosemary was treated more or less differently.

Her parents rarely let her appear in the public eye, but she behaves very positively and optimistically, with an innocent heart beneath her angelic appearance.

In order to allow Rosemary to live a normal life and not to destroy the elite genes of the Kennedy family, her parents sent her to the operating table.

asked Freeman, the most famous psychiatric surgeon at the time, to perform an operation called: frontal lobe lobotomy.

The failure of the operation turned Rosemary, who could still live like a normal person, into a hemiplegic patient who could only sit in a wheelchair and could not take care of herself. While losing her language ability, her intelligence was reduced to that of a 2-year-old child. .

This also caused the Kennedy family to completely give up on her. Rosemary, a daughter of a famous family who could have been free and happy, will spend the rest of her life in a nursing home until she is forgotten.

In this incident, in addition to the infamous frontal lobe removal surgery , what is even more ironic is that Rosemary became the oldest person in the Kennedy family.

Frontal lobotomy, what exactly is it? How was it born?

The world's first psychiatric surgery was frontal lobotomy.

It was invented by surgeon Moniz, who won the Nobel Prize for this operation.

Initially, people regarded frontal lobotomy as a life-saving straw for mentally ill patients. However, after countless practices, people discovered that this was an extremely absurd and inhumane farce.

In the early part of the last century, there was little awareness of mental illness.

Even today, mental illness is still an insurmountable problem for mankind, but people's prejudice against it has changed a lot.

Mental illness was initially classified as a "metaphysical" problem, and even after centuries of research, its pathogenesis has not been clarified.

Until the emergence of mental hospitals, doctors began to systematically treat and study mental patients.

Although it is said to be research and treatment, in fact, the early mental hospitals were more like torture factories.

Electric shocks and chains are essential equipment.

It wasn’t until the mid-19th century that an injured construction worker gave doctors a new light.

His head was inserted with an iron rod, but miraculously he survived, and his temperament changed drastically after that. Friends thought he seemed like a different person.

The iron rod penetrated his left prefrontal lobe.

Doctors at the time boldly speculated that losing the prefrontal lobe might not affect life, and could even change a person's mood. Wouldn't this be a panacea for people suffering from mental illness?

So a European doctor quickly started research and conducted experiments on animals, removing different brain tissues for comparison.

But most doctors at the time still had sense. They thought it was a barbaric, vulgar and inhumane operation, so the research was eventually shelved.

It was not until the mid-20th century that surgeon Moniz uncovered this 19th-century study and began animal experiments again.

This time he chose a violent gorilla. After removing the frontal lobe, the gorilla showed unusual docility and would not react excessively to any behavior.

This made Moniz overjoyed, and he quickly launched human experiments.

His first experimental subject was a woman with an extreme and extreme personality.

After the electric shock, the woman fell into sleep. Moniz opened two holes on the left and right sides of the woman's head and poured in a high-concentration alcohol solution to destroy the neurotransmitter system.

After the woman woke up, in addition to being easily nauseous, her temperament became cold, she was not interested in anything, and she was no longer aggressive towards people and things. At that time, the operation was indeed considered a success.

Later, Moniz improved the operation. Instead of pouring alcohol, he directly used a vacuum needle to extract the frontal lobe.

There were no examination instruments at the time, and the entire operation was performed without the doctor being able to see the actual internal structure of the patient's brain.

In other words, it is completely supported by theory. Dr. Freeman, who co-researched

and Moniz, also has some insights into the surgery.

For example, Moniz's surgery is difficult to operate and requires high surgical environment, so it cannot be practiced on a large scale.

So Freeman invented ice pick therapy.

This led to the rapid popularity of frontal lobotomy around the world.

Not to mention that doctors in regular hospitals can perform this kind of surgery, small clinics on the street can also do it.

Ice pick therapy is more simple and crude. The ice pick enters the brain through the patient's upper eye socket and damages the frontal lobe by sliding left and right.

can be completed in ten minutes.

can be done anytime and anywhere.

and it’s only $25.

In just over ten years, tens of thousands of people have undergone frontal lobotomy.

Freeman asked reporters to promote him, and people at the time were blinded by the results and regarded lobotomy as a panacea for mental illness.

plus The outbreak of in World War II has plunged people in many countries into panic and anxiety. The incidence of mental illness is increasing, especially among soldiers who have come off the battlefield. Because traumatic stress reactions have been implemented in large numbers for free Operation.

later even exaggerated to the point that people who were just temporarily emotionally unstable were dragged in by their families and forced to undergo surgery, and even two-year-old children were not spared.

There was a ridiculous stepmother who performed a frontal lobotomy on her child because he didn't go to bed on time.

In 1949, Moniz won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his frontal lobotomy.

Freeman’s ice pick therapy became very popular at the same time.

It was not until 1970 that the United States began to ban frontal lobotomy surgery and began to use drug treatment.

But it is too late, because many people who have undergone surgery have lost their original personalities and preferences, and are like walking zombies, living truly indifferently and without emotional fluctuations.

withdrawn, slow, numb, sluggish, and withdrawn.

It's like it doesn't matter what a person without taste eats. Emotions and personality are the most distinctive characteristics of a person. Without them, it's just eating and sleeping every day to extend one's life.

Therefore, frontal lobotomy is also jokingly called "soul extraction". What is the meaning of a person's life without a soul?

So the ban on frontal lobotomy is the glory of humanitarianism, and it is also the improvement of people's prejudice against patients with mental illness, and it is also the progress of human civilization.