| Similarly, the muttonheads who specialise in breeding particularly vicious strains, such as pit bulls, deserve lobotomies. |
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| Little attention was paid to what happened to those subjected to lobotomies after surgery. |
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| I don't know what's the matter with me but obviously I was off sick the day that the lobotomies were done at school. |
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| Oh, and the doctors would also have to perform lobotomies and give electric shock treatment. |
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| The number of lobotomies, or leucotomies, fell dramatically after the 1950s, as drugs became available, especially for schizophrenia. |
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| These were the days when doubts were being voiced about lobotomies and leucotomies and other simple little strokes of the specialist's knife. |
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| Upon receipt of the promised champagne and chocolates I can recommend a friendly brain surgeon, skilled in pre-frontal lobotomies. |
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| We have all soaked up enough of music's answer to general anaesthetic to have lobotomies performed quite painlessly. |
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| Later, a visiting neurosurgeon used the theater to perform lobotomies on patients who were scarcely aware of what was being done to them. |
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| It seems that in the 1930s, when Egas Moniz was doing the first lobotomies on humans, treating mental illness was urgent for some reason. |
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| Although we no longer burn mental patients at the stake or perform lobotomies, this new research demonstrates that our treatments for schizophrenia are still far from ideal. |
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| Possibly during the past 60 years in mental institutions, surgeons have been performing frontal lobotomies and leucotomies on patients. |
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| They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour. |
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