In 1946, an American doctor performed brain surgery with a tool from his own kitchen — an ice pick. Over the next two decades he’d perform more than 3,000 of these procedures himself, touring state hospitals in a station wagon reporters nicknamed the “lobotomobile.” This is the real history of the ice pick lobotomy, from its Nobel Prize-winning origins in Portugal to the pill that finally ended it.
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