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Dr. Walter Freeman's Frontal Lobotomies at Athens (Ohio) State Hospital

Few chapters in the medical history of AthensMoniz, M.D., a Portugese physician who
County, Ohio, are more notorious oreventually won a Nobel Prize for his work,
fascinating than that concerning Walterreported the results of his earliest frontal
Freeman, M.D., and the more than 200 frontallobotomies in a French medical journal. Dr.
lobotomies he performed at the Athens StateWalter Freeman, a neurologist at George
Hospital in seven visits between 1953 andWashington University in Washington, D.C.,
1957.Until the middle of the twentiethwho  had  met  Dr. Moniz a year earlier, was
century, treatment for most inpatients in
large state hospitals, like that in Athens,impressed with the report. Within the same
was limited to providing a safe and humaneyear Dr. Freeman teamed with a neurosurgeon
environment. Effective drugs for mentalto perform the operation, and over the next
illnesses did not become available until thedecade the partners operated on many more
late 1950s and early 1960s.In 1936 Egascases.



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