Patients of the trans-Elegant lunatics asylum in Weston, West Virginia were victims of

all sorts of horrors disguised as therapy in the late 19th and early 20th century, such

as lobotomies.

Lobotomies were a medical procedure, and they used the word medical very loosely here, in

which a patient-slash helpless victim would be first rendered unconscious via electro-shock,

which sounds like a horrible way to be rendered unconscious.

You know, I guess general anesthesia, which they did have access to then in some rudimentary

form, was just too much of a hassle.

Should we get some ether doctor?

No, no, no, just dad.

That's clear across the building.

Just grab me those wires.

Just grab me those wires away.

Way more fun to shock them to sleep anyway.

Then the doctors slash sadist slash monster took a sharp ice pick like instrument.

It actually became known as the ice pick method, which is not a comforting way to describe

brain surgery.

Doctor, what surgical tool would you be using for the brain operation?

I think I'll go with the ice pick today, nurse, why don't you?

Why don't you head to the staff lounge and retrieve my medical instrument from the refrigerator?

Then the doctor would insert the ice pick above the patient's eyeball through the orbit

of the eye into the frontal lobe of the brain, moving the instrument back and forth.

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