Thursday, January 24, 2008

Is This Week of the Freakishly Gruesome on Your Public Television Station?

Tonight: the lobotomist.

Horrifying factoid: shock treatments sometimes caused seizures so violent, they fractured vertebrae.

UPDATE: Ewwwwww, archival footage of actual surgeries!

FURTHER: Dudes cranked the lobotomies out in five minutes in offices and did barnstorming tours training people how to punch ice picks through people's eye sockets! Wow, am I glad that that medical technology has made advancements.

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