In an impressive demonstration of the optimistic spirit of the mid-20th century, the enterprising Walter Jackson Freeman II, PhD spent the bulk of the 1950s and 60s developing and performing a novel surgery, the transorbital lobotomy, despite that fact he was not—in the medical sense—a surgeon.
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In an impressive demonstration of the optimistic spirit of the mid-20th century, the enterprising Walter Jackson Freeman II, PhD spent the bulk of the 1950s and 60s developing and performing a novel surgery, the transorbital lobotomy, despite that fact he was not—in the medical sense—a surgeon.