They designed an instrument which they called a leucotome, and called the operation a leucotomy (cutting of the white matter).
Electroconvulsive therapy was introduced in 1942 followed by the first prefrontal leucotomy operation in the hospital in 1946.
Frontal lobotomy (sometimes called frontal leucotomy) successfully reduced distress but at the cost of often blunting the subject's emotions, volition and personality.
Limbic leucotomy is a combination of subcaudate tractotomy and anterior cingulotomy.
Shock treatment, insulin, leucotomy, provide the possibility that people who have been abnormal can, under treatment, have a chance of becoming perfectly normal people in the end.
We need say no more about pre-frontal leucotomies.
Pre-frontal leucotomy is an example in that field.
Many people say that this treatment was just as rough and ready as the old prefrontal leucotomy.
