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Freeman's lobotomy procedure included knocking a patient out with electric shocks, lifting the eyelids and inserting an "ice-pick-like" instrument through the tear duct. He pierced the skull bone by tapping on the instrument with a surgical hammer, then shoved the pointed steel about an inch into the frontal lobe of the brain and moved its sharp tip back and forth. This procedure since has been universally discredited.
From: Forgotten Dead of St. Elizabeths, By Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Insight Magazine, July 2001
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