An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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  • 4905

Essai d’un traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses.

Bull. Acad. Méd. (Paris), 3 sér., 115, 385-92, 1936.

Prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy). Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 1110-14. See also Egas Moniz's book Tentatives opératoires dans le traitement de certaines psychoses, Paris, 1936. His name was originally Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire; the name of Egas Moniz, a Portuguese national hero, was added at his baptism.

In 1949 Egas Moniz shared the Nobel Prize with Hess "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses."



Subjects: NEUROSURGERY › Psychosurgery, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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