| 1. | The North Wales Hospital, Denbigh : Leucotomy was introduced in 1942.
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| 2. | Limbic leucotomies continued to be performed at Atkinson Morley s Hospital until 1999.
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| 3. | In 1957, for example, he performed 125 rostral and 19 standard leucotomies.
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| 4. | Swanton also performed leucotomy on many patients.
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| 5. | Here he describes the Freeman-Watts leucotomy and the speed at which he operated:
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| 6. | Prior to the leucotomy, the chimps engaged in typical behavior including throwing feces and fighting.
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| 7. | There were no deaths and he did not consider that any patients had deteriorated following leucotomy.
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| 8. | "' Limbic leucotomy "'is a combination of subcaudate tractotomy and anterior cingulotomy.
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| 9. | At that point he had completed a series of 14 leucotomies to relieve aggressive symptoms in patients.
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| 10. | One young woman who underwent a leucotomy turned out to have been detained illegally for eighteen years.
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