I am back + the history of lobotomy

Do we learn from history? No.

Sorry for disappearing. I missed you and I love you. I am sending a very interesting and unusual interview shortly but in the meanwhile, I wrote an article about the history of lobotomy that Dr. Mercola published last week.

In 1936, the New York Times lauded lobotomy as a “the new surgery of the soul.” In 1949, Moniz received a Nobel prize “for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses.”

When we ponder past acts of medical barbarism, we often feel flabbergasted by how the people committing atrocities failed to notice the barbarism of what they did. Like, was it really so hard to see that blindly fiddling around with a sharp instrument inside one’s brain — or hammering an “icepick” into one’s brain — was a “treatment” from hell?

Was it really so hard to see that treating the so called “female hysteria” by surgical removal or mutilation of sexual organs was an abysmal act? Was it really so hard to see that forced sterilization of the people whose breeding wa…