Can you imagine letting someone stick a pointy object in your eye ball and letting them scramble your brains? This is what Rosemary Kennedy, along with thousands of others went through. Today’s medical field has improved since those times. Lobotomy is one of the horrid medical treatments that used to be used.

Rosemary Kennedy was a fearless, strong woman up until she was 23. She had shown some violent behavior, although nothing serious, and her father decided to force her into getting a lobotomy for her “moodiness.” Dr. Walter Freeman had performed only sixty-five lobotomies by 1941, which is when she received the procedure. It left her totally incontinent; She would often stare at completely blank walls, and her speech and verbals skills were diminished to merely an unintelligent babble. Eight years following her procedure, she had to be moved into a home for the disabled. Due to her lowered mental capacity, she became detached from her family. She later passed away of natural causes. …show more content…
It is a neuro surgery that involves separating the frontal lobes of the brain. This procedure was first used on patients in mental institutions with illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and others illnesses. Later, it expanded into being used on children and others claiming it could cure a variety of things such as “bad behaviour,” or “moodiness” like in Rosemary’s case. The procedure involved an instrument called an orbitoclast, which was similar to an ice pick, and the doctor would insert it into the patients eye socket using a hammer. They would then scramble the pick back and forth to damage the frontal