I'm reading a wonderfully interesting book at the moment; 'Medical Blunders'. It covers all the failures of doctors, medical theorists, surgeons and psychologists from roughly the 1700's. The section on the lobotomies performed by Moniz and Freedmen/Watts is so perfectly gruesome. Also it was once believed that if a woman was administered chloroform whilst in labour, it turned the whole ordeal into one lengthy orgasm.
In actuality it knocked the bitch out and deformed and killed the babies.
But it's highly interesting :P
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