#freeman came from a long line of famous surgeons and wanted to make his mark
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i don't wanna call that lobotomy tiktok misinfo, because it isn't really, it's just that thing where it's hard to condense history into a 1 minute clip without stripping some context
#this isn't at the mutuals who rbed it im just having a History Nerd Moment#like walter freeman was 100% a piece of shit#and ruined countless people's lives#and the bit about him wanted to preform lobotomy experiments on the Tuskegee syphilis patients#was true! he did want to do it but was dismissed#the thing is freeman didn't invent the lobotomy per se--he studied the technique from a portuguese doctor#named egaz moniz who was the earliest guy to research the connection between the brain and mental health#and he preformed his early experiments on rabbits dogs monkeys etc#freeman came from a long line of famous surgeons and wanted to make his mark#so when he was working on a psych ward and heard about about moniz's research he decided#he'd begin his own studies on the relation of the brain and mental health#going in with the idea of 'most illnesses have a physical cause so that must be the case for the brain as well'#im not giving him any leeway but at that time in history the only cure for mi they had was 'lock them away in an asylum forever'#so wanting to find an actual cure for mental illnesses was relatively noble but. he was not#he did want a cure but it was only so he could Make His Mark on History. when he observed personality changes in chimps#when they had their frontal lobes demaged he went 'ureka!' and decided that was it#it caused many serious complications but he didn't care because it stopped all physical symptoms (really people would just. sit there)#and he thought this was such a perfect solution he wanted to franchise the procedure. for lack of better words#(i'm running out of tags so i'll rb with some more hang on)
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