Walter Freeman And Mental Illness

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In the early 1900s a doctor by the name of Walter Freeman had changed medicine. He discovered by cutting parts of the brain you could get rid of people's mental illnesses. Many patients with depression or suicidal thoughts would come to Freeman pleading for help. What he would do is go in through the eyeball with an ice-pick and tap it in slowly to the brain. He would continue on to cut parts of the brain, therefore cutting the emotions that caused the mental illnesses away. Walter Freeman had many of cases that went great but had few that went bad. Howard Dully goes on to tells us about his experience. He was Freemans youngest patient and the reason for the procedure was that his step-mother felt he was out of hand. Today, he feels like something

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