Episode 414: Lobotomies Part II - Assistant to the Bone Slicer

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4.6 • 53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

On the conclusion to our series on the history of lobotomies, we explore just how the procedure became the most popular mental health treatment of the forties, despite the horrific and unpredictable side effects that came with shoving an ice pick up through an eye socket and wiggling it around in their brain, plus the reason why the lobotomy fell out of favor.

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0:00.0	There's no place to escape to this is the last talk on the left.
0:07.0	That's when the cannonball's started.
0:12.0	What was that?
0:18.0	There you go, my name's Robert Millezman.
0:21.0	I'm not anyone, he's old now, I want to say thank you to Dr. Freeman.
0:25.0	Let me hear you, not rure, um full, Вот, uh, you want a bow?
0:35.0	Give me my eeeOWEHH.
0:38.0	Ei, e, uhe, eee, ee, Ei...
0:41.7	Ev.
0:26.1	We those..
0:43.1	Johnny, are you playing glass cheating wiggies?
0:48.5	Everybody's playing my glass.
0:52.0	unwrap yourself in front of all these doctors.
0:54.4	It's time for another lobotic guy!
0:56.1	Oh, my God!
0:57.1	Oh, my God!
0:58.1	Merry Christmas!
0:59.2	Merry Christmas!
1:00.4	Merry Christmas!
1:01.4	Merry Christmas!
1:02.4	Come here, what's up everyone?
1:03.7	Welcome to the last podcast on the left.
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