Minotaurus Rex posted:

Don't ya think? Out of respect to all the people who straight up died while some quack was mashing up their brain with a stick? Like I have no idea how the prize works, but there can't be too many people on the Nobel Committee in 2025 that still think it was a great idea.. Can there? I typed it out as the Lobel Prize the first time heh. That's a different prize. Also take a gander at the Uncle Fester looking motherfucker

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/facts/ posted:

To feel good mentally, nerve impulses in the brain have to function properly. In the mid-1930s Egas Moniz introduced lobotomy, a surgical operation involving an incision into the prefrontal lobe to mitigate severe symptoms of serious mental illnesses. The operation was widespread during the 1940s and 1950s, but it became apparent that it could lead to serious personality changes. The use of lobotomies declined drastically when medications for mental illness were developed during the 1950s.

TaurusTorus posted:

When they were lobotomizing Rosemary Kennedy they had her pray and sing "God Bless America" until she became unintelligible, then they knew the lobotomy had worked. Anyway, anybody know anyone doing cheap lobotomies? My kid's been acting up lately.

Ding Dong Silver posted:

Let’s dig his rear end up and stomp his evil bones

Ding Dong Silver posted:

Let’s dig his rear end up and stomp his evil bones

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/speech/ posted:

Prior to the speech, Carl Skottsberg, President of the Royal Academy of Sciences, addressed the laureate: “There is, I believe, some connection between the work of professor Hess and that of Professor Antonio Egas Moniz, who share the prize in medicine, though it isn’t in any way a case of mutual or any other kind of influence. Professor Moniz was a notorious savant in various fields when, accidentally, he came to the conclusion that the surgeon’s knife would bring relief or even recovery to patients suffering from certain serious psychic disturbances. Boldly he went to work. He was 61 when he made his first brain operation for this purpose. Today his method is practised everywhere with very good results. We regret that he has been unable to come, for we would have loved to meet this wonderful man, a famous scientist, a writer of historical books, a politician, statesman and diplomat, all in one person, and the more so as he is the first Portuguese whose career is crowned with a Nobel prize. I shall ask the official representative of Portugal kindly to congratulate Professor Moniz on our behalf and to express to him our gratitude and admiration.”

signalnoise posted:

what a jerk

Mozi posted:

no it's more of a scooping motion

Mozi posted:

no it's more of a scooping motion

Fatkraken posted:

there's a really good PBS documentary about this dude on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owa5T5RywwE

Buce posted:

my lobes!

Vim Fuego posted:

Colonel Cancer posted:

Isn't the prize named after a guy famous for blowing a lotta dudes up? Imo we should only give it to real fuckers

Fatkraken posted:

wait I'm wrong, conflated Moniz and Freeman. Still a good doc tho

Diamond Dallas Page posted:

Give it to the guy who figured out adult circumcision

Computer viking posted:

Tbf Moniz was also a butcher. Sure, he did at least treat it like a serious medical intervention, unlike Freeman's "Look, I can do two at once!". Still, IIRC he did no real followup, didn't listen to his colleagues trying to stop him for good medical reasons, and ignored the director of the institute he got the patients from telling him that (unlike his claims) the patients didn't recover over time - and worryingly many just died.