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