The lobotomist

Dr. Freeman was born on November 14, 1895 “in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Walter Jackson Freeman I. His father was a successful doctor, and his grandfather, William Williams Keen, was president of the American Medical Association. He graduated from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School”. Was a good doctor a doctor that wanted to write his own future because he made something that many doctor don’t even try, a dangerous surgery, we can call this the lobotomy, a surgery to change your emotions, for you don’t have a mental illness. He made the lobotomy on the frontal lobes, it often worked but many called Mr. Freeman a monster because that surgery had many side effects but he didn’t care and he carry on with his experiment. The first patient was a woman, all worked right, it simply worked. He gave her electro shocks to be like anesthesia and then he got the ice pick and separated the lobes. There was a hospital name St. Elizabeth hospital all the mentally ill end up there, because their families didn’t knew what to do, that was their only choice. The hospital was very horrible because all the mentally ill damage all. Dr. Freeman got many ideas from the Nobel Prize winner for medicine the Portuguese neurologist Egaz Muniz. Dr. Freeman everyday he studied that surgery and all was going well. The symptoms go away for months then the patients relapsed. Many didn’t agree with the lobotomy so that made freeman find a new path to the brain, and then he started to do the lobotomies in front of the press, he made 25 lobotomies in one day. In 1954 they invented the chemical lobotomy and that made Dr.freeman become infamous because all the doctors were prescribing that chemical lobotomy. With the start of antipsychotic drugs, notably chlorpromazine, in the middle of the 1950s, lobotomy fell out of service as a treatment, and Freeman saw his reputation fall quickly. His license to practice medicine was canceled when a patient he was lobotomizing at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute died when he went back for a photo, by accident bouncing the orbitoclast. He continued to drive cross country in his car to visit his former patients. “Freeman's most notorious operation was on the ill-fated Rosemary Kennedy, who was permanently incapacitated by a lobotomy at age 23. Another of his patients, Howard Dully, has now written a book called My Lobotomy about his experiences with Freeman and his long recovery after the surgery he underwent at 12 years old. The claim that Freeman operated on actress Frances Farmer has been conclusively disproven, when its originator admitted in a court proceeding that he had made it up. Researchers have found no reference in Farmer's medical records to an operation while she was not institutionalized, nor did they find a reference to Farmer in Freeman's patient records.” Dr. Freeman too many was the one who revolutionized medicine because he made many things to bring us conclusions to have a better future. Dr. Freeman died in 192 from cancer.http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EmYZKc7VwZA/SZs1nX2A6ZI/AAAAAAAAAAM/_cYWpARYdPY/s400/freeman2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://chincheukngen.blogspot.com/2009/02/dr-chin-cheuk-ngen.html&usg=__FBXDFUV-rnKGbgnz5Wf5wNoQnvk=&h=305&w=300&sz=16&hl=en&start=0&sig2=YS4rTiZbZAFaPuLxGqEf-Q&zoom=1&tbnid=Tw1v513O6dWV8M:&tbnh=131&tbnw=136&ei=XMSITa6yK4eF0QGzoMCZDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddr%2Bfreeman%2Blobotomy%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D930%26bih%3D558%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C84&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=123&vpy=221&dur=3735&hovh=226&hovw=223&tx=172&ty=171&oei=XMSITa6yK4eF0QGzoMCZDg&page=1&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:0&biw=930&bih=558