6 janv. 1935 - Labotomy

Description:

António Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, performed the first modern lobotomy, the severing of neural connections in the brain's frontal cortex to treat delusional or violent patients. He was not a trained surgeon. The operation was soon found useless and destructive and is no longer practiced, but in 1948 Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his invention (nytimes).