The Evolution of the Leukotomy

Antonio Moniz was one of the early experimenters with what would come to be known as a lobotomy. Walter Freeman developed a modification of Moniz's procedure and renamed it a lobotomy in much the same way as Oreos modified the hydraulics cookie. Miss Hammett from Topeka, Kansas had her head cut off on September 14, 1936. Many of her mental health issues focused around an obsession with thinning her hair.