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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BURCKHARDT, Johann Gottlieb (1836 – 1907)

1836 – 1907

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1891 CE

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Ueber Rindenexcisionen, als Beitrag zur operativen Therapie der Psychosen.

BURCKHARDT, Johann Gottlieb (1836 – 1907)

Burckhardt, physician at a Swiss mental hospital, performed frontal lobotomy on four patients in 1890, with good results in some cases. Digital facsimile from Universitätsbibliothek Bern at this link.