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• The North Wales Hospital, Denbigh : Leucotomy was introduced in 1942.
• Limbic leucotomies continued to be performed at Atkinson Morley s Hospital until 1999.
• In 1957, for example, he performed 125 rostral and 19 standard leucotomies.
• Swanton also performed leucotomy on many patients.
• Here he describes the Freeman-Watts leucotomy and the speed at which he operated:
• Prior to the leucotomy, the chimps engaged in typical behavior including throwing feces and fighting.
• There were no deaths and he did not consider that any patients had deteriorated following leucotomy.
• "' Limbic leucotomy "'is a combination of subcaudate tractotomy and anterior cingulotomy.
• At that point he had completed a series of 14 leucotomies to relieve aggressive symptoms in patients.
• One young woman who underwent a leucotomy turned out to have been detained illegally for eighteen years.
• Limbic leucotomy was developed in the early 1970s by surgeon Alan Richardson at Atkinson Morley s Hospital.
• A few people underwent the standard pre-frontal leucotomy; the most commonly used operation was subcaudate tractotomy.
• Many patients at Newhaven were treated with the hallucinogenic drug leucotomies, also called lobotomies, during the late 1960s.
• Bexley Hospital, Kent : 48 leucotomies, with 3 deaths, had been performed by McKissock by mid 1945.
• By mid 1952, 7 deaths due to cerebral haemorrhage during transorbital leucotomy had been reported to the Board of Control.
• In Britain in the mid-1950s, about three-quarters of psychosurgical operations were standard pre-frontal leucotomies.
• They designed an instrument which they called a leucotome and called the operation a leucotomy ( cutting of the white matter ).
• The major centre for leucotomy in Italy was the Racconigi Hospital, where the experienced neurosurgeon Ludvig Puusepp provided a guiding hand.
• St Lawrence's Hospital, Caterham, Surrey : in March 1944 a programme of leucotomy was begun on " mental defectives ".
• It became known as a transorbital lobotomy in the USA and a transorbital leucotomy in the UK ( where it was less popular ).