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...Frontal Attack. In Spartanburg, R. C. Wyatt, 79, sore because Waitress Bessie Meheles gave him the cold shoulder, planted dynamite near the restaurant where she worked, blasted off its front...
Nerve cutting is a drastic operation, and doctors know they cannot predict all its effects. Like the vagus nerve operation for ulcers, and pre-frontal lobotomy for insanity (TIME, Dec. 23), cutting the phrenic nerves impairs some internal functions, but doctors have observed no serious effects. Their conclusion: nerve cutting is justified as a last resort...
...insane. But Psychiatrist Louis Lipschutz, clinical director of the hospital, decided to try psychosurgery. (She consented.) A surgeon carefully opened her skull (using a local anesthetic), sliced into the frontal lobes of the brain, cut most of the nerve connections to the thalamus (crossroads of the brain's nerves). The patient said: "I feel dopey." After the operation she cried, sucked her thumb, splashed in her bath like a two-year-old. But in a month, she acted like an adult...
...operation, called pre-frontal lobotomy, is not new. It was invented by Portugal's Dr. Egas Moniz in 1935, was introduced to the U.S. by Neurologist Walter Freeman and Neurosurgeon James W. Watts of George Washington University (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942). But doctors have kept quiet about it. The operation is a desperate last resort...
...Operation. The operation is delicate. The surgeon cuts two openings in the skull, one on each side above the temples, removes each bone button (to be replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...