The Dark Side of Science: Is Lobotomy the Worst Surgery in History?

A lobotomy, originally known as a leucotomy, was a type of psychosurgery involving the severing of connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex to treat mental disorders.

This barbaric surgery left many patients as mere shells of their former selves, marking a dark chapter in the history of mental health treatment.

Though initially conceived in Portugal by Dr. Egas Moniz in the 1940s, it continued into the 1960s under the practice of Walter Freeman in the United States.

The procedure was controversially awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for "the discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses."

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