The Lobotomist

The Lobotomist - Walter Freeman
Walter Freeman was born on November 14, 1895. He was an American physician and he was a very popular person when he lived. He was born on a time when mental diseases such as Bipolar or Depression were not well studied diseases. The people that were mentally ill would be taken into a warehouse or prison were they would do nothing just lay down and stay there until they died. They were treated very poorly in these places and to be mentally ill was really an uglier thing than how it is today. Walter Freeman was a physician and he could not stand the idea of people having to get inside that place because they were mentally ill so he decided to perform a Lobotomy. The idea of a lobotomy was already thought by a portuguese physician but Dr Walter Freeman perfectioned it. Freeman was looking to solve mental problems fast and the lobotomy was a very quick process and at the beginning it was a very good surgery but then he was denounced as a medical monster! There was no succesful lobotomy because there would start to be flaws after three or four months. It was called the Trans Orbital Lobotomy and the process was very easy.First they would but the person unconscious by electrocuting the him and then they would insert an ice pick through the eye lobe and tap it with a hammer to take aaway the part of your brain that connects to the frontal lobe and the part of your brain that handles emotions.

Allice Hamock was the first American person to receive a lobotomy and at first there were only good signs coming of her.. It worked for four months at first but then it had a relapse were the person would go crazy again. It would work because he symptoms would first go away but the disease it self did not go away.

Rosemary Kennedy became seriously disabled after her lobotomy. Things started going wrong when he was trying to take a picture while doing the operation and the ice pick slipped and killed the patient. Doctor Freeman didnt have any choice but to leave the hospital and he did. Freeman started going crazy like getting addicted to doing lobotomy and you know what they say: everything in excess is bad. Freeman started to get a bad reputation because some pills started to make him competition so he stopped doing Lobotomys. Four years after he retired, he decided to look for a lot of his former patients to prove everybody that lobotomies were not a medical failure.