Legal Issues in Behavioral Surgery

Editorial. London 1935: the frontal lobe, insanity, and a brain surgery

“…10,12 Although it is sometimes said that lobotomy "spread like wildfire," that is probably an unwarranted exaggeration. 6 In fact, with the exception of Italy, where more than 200 leucotomies had been carried out by 1939, adoption in Europe was relatively slow. Only 6 had been performed in Great Britain before 1942.…”