hey seemed a lot duller than before. He also noticed many more side affects of nausea disorientation and sluggishness. Later on he director of the hospital put an end to the experimentation due to moral rights and controversy of the time.Egas Moniz popularized the procedure in 1935 to control overly aggressive behavior or violent behavior. In some cases the individuals became inactive. There is also a story about an Irishman named Phineas Gage, in a rock explosion he had an iron bar go through his brain. It was extracted. But his personality had changed drastically. This started new interest. Doctors started to experiment with this area of the brain. In 1890 Gottlieb Burkhart drilled holes in the heads of six patients and extracted parts of the brain. Two of them died but the others had survived and had changes in their behavior. Dr. Walter Freeman practiced lobotomy with much enthusiasm. He also invented new ways of extracting the brain such as the ice pick procedure.Freeman followed in the footsteps of Moniz after studying his reports and the lobotomies. Freeman and Watts came together and performed the surgery, which consisted of making six holes in the head. The woman was sixty-three. Later after the surgery she was fine. A week later she seemed to lose control and couldn’t function as properly as before a week later she was fine and her speech returned to normal. All of their patients who included the next six had the following in common: worry, apprehension, anxiety, insomnia, nervous tension. After the surgery the doctors reported that they no longer had disorientation, confusion, phobias, hallucinations, and delusions had been relieved. The original procedure was modified in 1937 to involve severing almost all the nerve tracts connecting the prefrontal lobes with the rest of the brain. Although the operation was hailed as a major advance in treating severely emotionally ill patients, physicians realized in the late 1940s t...
