| 11. | Limbic leucotomy was developed in the early 1970s by surgeon Alan Richardson at Atkinson Morley s Hospital.
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| 12. | A few people underwent the standard pre-frontal leucotomy; the most commonly used operation was subcaudate tractotomy.
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| 13. | Many patients at Newhaven were treated with the hallucinogenic drug leucotomies, also called lobotomies, during the late 1960s.
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| 14. | Bexley Hospital, Kent : 48 leucotomies, with 3 deaths, had been performed by McKissock by mid 1945.
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| 15. | By mid 1952, 7 deaths due to cerebral haemorrhage during transorbital leucotomy had been reported to the Board of Control.
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| 16. | In Britain in the mid-1950s, about three-quarters of psychosurgical operations were standard pre-frontal leucotomies.
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| 17. | They designed an instrument which they called a leucotome and called the operation a leucotomy ( cutting of the white matter ).
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| 18. | The major centre for leucotomy in Italy was the Racconigi Hospital, where the experienced neurosurgeon Ludvig Puusepp provided a guiding hand.
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| 19. | St Lawrence's Hospital, Caterham, Surrey : in March 1944 a programme of leucotomy was begun on " mental defectives ".
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| 20. | It became known as a transorbital lobotomy in the USA and a transorbital leucotomy in the UK ( where it was less popular ).
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