they could look directly at the nerves they were cutting.They also were credited for the ice-pick procedure. It was a trans-orbital way. Which meant penetrating the orbital bone, which meant through they eye socket. This meant no holes and only a headache and black eyes for the patient. They were trying to go through the eye sockets and then do the job to the brain but they couldn’t figure out how to get tin there. Then one-day freeman thought of using a simple ice pick. And t worked. With a few minor adjustments to the ice pick they stared to perform the ice pick lobotomy. At this point freeman started to experiment on his own. Watts found that this procedure was very brutal and threatened to break off working with Freeman. A neurosurgeon in Jacksonville Florida developed a procedure that made it possible to the brain area being destroyed. J G Lyerly approached the brain from the top of the skull. He created the opening in the depth of the brain by using long tweezers or forceps. Then he would use light and a small knife he would cut the nerve fibers under direct observation. (151) Nearly half of his patients consisted of prison inmates.A specific hospital, Stockton State Hospital, had about four thousand patients and eleven physicians. The physicians needed order to concentrate on patients with major problems. Some patients simply were out of control. In order to calm patients down they would perform lobotomy due to the lack of staff in the hospital. This procedure did not always work on patients. In some cases lobotomy was performed more than once. During these times women were supposed to be a certain way, therefore they performed the surgery on more women than men. ...
