Lobotomy, Lobotomy

Watts, he performed the first prefrontal leucotomy in the U.S. in 1936. Freeman and Watts gradually refined the surgical technique, and created the Freeman-Watts procedure (the "precision method," the standard prefrontal lobotomy).

Dr. Walter Freeman personally performed the procedure. Rather than any improvement, the lobotomy reduced Rosemary to an infantile mentality including incontinence. Her verbal skills were reduced to unintelligible babble. Her father hid the nature of Rosemary's affliction for years and described it as the result of mental retardation. Rosemary's sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in her honor in 1968.

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