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Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize
- dangle1 5y agoAnd related, prior to this Julius Wagner-Jauregg won a Nobel for pyrotherapy treatment of neurosyphilis. There are some terrifying photos of medical assistants at the time moving from one patient to another with the same needle to transfer infectious blood from one patient to another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wagner-Jauregg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wagner-Jauregg
- fybs 5y agoMaybe you might find this interesting too. Robert J. White was an American neurosurgeon best known for his head transplants on living monkeys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGpmTf2kOc0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGpmTf2kOc0 (part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2RVq5ufgw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2RVq5ufgw (part 2)