During his visits to the hospital, he learned about a procedure, a "lobotomy" in which, according to the book, a surgeon would drill a hole in the skull and sever "certain connections in the ...

She had a few physical side effects such as nausea and disorientation ... of such radical treatments as shock therapy and lobotomy. In the United States, neurology professor Walter Freeman ...

As with the lobotomy, the side effects of this practice came to be discovered with time. And accusations of inappropriate use -- to "cure" homosexuality, for example, or psoriasis -- increased.