lobotomy• She had a lobotomy in 1954.• On at least two occasions a lobotomy was considered and rejected for Alfred, who became ill in late 1943.• So why all the fuss about lobotomies?• A frontallobotomy was of more use.• All we know is that there were successstories, including at least one lobotomy.• Naomi was again institutionalized, and this time was given a prefrontal lobotomy.
Originlobotomy
(1900-2000)lobe + -tomy“cutting” (from Modern Latin-tomia, from Greektemnein“to cut”)