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1). Dr. Walter Freeman's Frontal Lobotomies at Athens (Ohio) State Hospital By : Gary Cordingley, MD, PhD
Few chapters in the medical history of Athens County, Ohio, are more notorious or fascinating than that concerning Walter Freeman, M.D., and the more than 200 frontal lobotomies he performed at the Athens State Hospital in seven visits between 1953 and 1957.
Until the middle of the twentieth century, treatment for most inpatients in large state hospitals, like that in Athens, was limited to providing a safe and humane environment.
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