Photograph: Multifocal leucotomy patient (1959)
Unknown photographer. Depicts first patient to be treated by multifocal leucotomy using chronically-indwelling electrodes. Picture taken after first coagulation. Also in picture: Ray Cooper and William Grey Walter, with an 8 channel EEG machine. Extreme right: a secretary takes shorthand notes of patient's reactions. Technique continued at the Burden Neurological Institute until 1985.
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167.00mm (height)215.00mm (width)
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- 1 photograph
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- BURD/A/06/024
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