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And in Norway, there were 2,005 known lobotomies. [144] In Denmark, there were 4,500 known lobotomies. [145] In Japan, the majority of lobotomies were performed on children with behaviour problems. The Soviet Union banned the practice in 1950 on moral grounds. [146] [147] [148] In Germany, it was performed only a few times. [149]
In 1949, 5,074 lobotomies were carried out in the United States and by 1951, 18,608 people had undergone the controversial procedure in that country. [63] One of the most famous people to have a lobotomy was the sister of John F. Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, who was rendered profoundly intellectually disabled as a result of the surgery. [64]
Walter Jackson Freeman II (November 14, 1895 – May 31, 1972) was an American physician who specialized in lobotomy. [1] Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals, where there were often no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets, Freeman invented a transorbital lobotomy procedure.
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There were gay men on General Washington's staff and among the leaders of the new republic, [4] [page needed] even though in Virginia there was a maximum penalty of death for sodomy. [citation needed] In 1779, Thomas Jefferson tried to reduce Virginia's maximum punishment for sodomy to castration, [5] but it was rejected by the Virginia ...
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Between 1926 and 1934 at least 40 priests were killed. [19] Where there were 4,500 priests serving the people before the rebellion, in 1934 there were only 334 priests licensed by the government to serve fifteen million people, the rest having been eliminated by emigration, expulsion and assassination. [19] [20] By 1935, 17 states had no priest ...