Sunday, September 4, 2016

What's going though your mind right now?

In the early days of lobotomies, the absence of x-rays and stereotactic devices made it difficult for the neurosurgeon to plan the lesion with any precision.
Not to mention the necessity of distracting the patient.

5 comments:

rhwombat said...

I see that the surgeon is taking notes, but her technique with the orbitoclast is...original.

Smut Clyde said...

I for one am concerned that the patient has been asked to hold the leucotome until the surgeon needs it. That does not look like sterile procedure to me.

rhwombat said...

That it one bloody great big leucotome, no matter where he's rubbing it. Perhaps it's Freeman"s mallet?

H. Rumbold, Master Barber said...

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy with Gage's tamping iron?

Smut Clyde said...

Which reminds me (via the usual tangential process of associations) that the Literature Wall in Vilnius now includes a plaque immortalising Thomas Harris and "Silence of the Lambs". Apparently because the book characterises Hannibal Lecter as being Lithuanian in his origins.