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Part Two: The Bastard Who Invented The Lobotomy

Behind the Bastards

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What Is He, New Tide?

Helen Comer was a nurse in West Virginia for 34 years. In 1954, she assisted Dr. Freeman in doing a transorbital lobotomy. "I know that day we lost one patient because they couldn't stop the bleeding"

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