1. The North Wales Hospital, Denbigh : Leucotomy was introduced in 1942. 2. Limbic leucotomies continued to be performed at Atkinson Morley s Hospital until 1999. 3. In 1957, for example, he performed 125 rostral and 19 standard leucotomies . 4. Swanton also performed leucotomy on many patients. 5. Here he describes the Freeman-Watts leucotomy and the speed at which he operated: 6. Prior to the leucotomy , the chimps engaged in typical behavior including throwing feces and fighting. 7. There were no deaths and he did not consider that any patients had deteriorated following leucotomy . 8. "' Limbic leucotomy "'is a combination of subcaudate tractotomy and anterior cingulotomy. 9. At that point he had completed a series of 14 leucotomies to relieve aggressive symptoms in patients. 10. One young woman who underwent a leucotomy turned out to have been detained illegally for eighteen years.
