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In 1935 Portuguese doctor Egas Moniz, learned of an experiment where the removal of the frontal lobes of two chimpanzees resulted in reduced violent behavior, making them more compliant. The doctor decided to repeat this experiment with humans and shortly after performing this procedure on unsuspecting patients, he published a paper demonstrating a method he believed to be an innovative way to treat mentally ill people.
Today, Moniz is remembered for discovering the lobotomy, one of the most shameful and tragic procedures in medicine.From the year 1945 to 1947 there were around 2,000 lobotomies performed. However, the numbers skyrocketed to 18,000 after Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize Medicine for his discovery in 1949. There were many factors as to why this surgery was deemed acceptable back in the day. Mainly due…
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