This sale is for one art piece  featuring half of an authentic antique human skull,  Lobotomy Orbitoclast & Hammer mounted to black fabric. 
 
The frame itself is made of a black faux wood shadowbox and measures apx. 17" long x 12" High x 5” wide. The shadowbox may be hung on the wall or displayed free standing.
 
Few medical procedures in history have garnered as much controversy as the lobotomy. Tens of thousands of lobotomies were performed in the United States in the mid-1900s, often leading to devastating outcomes. A lobotomy, also called a leucotomy, is a type of psychosurgery that was used to treat mental health conditions such as mood disorders and schizophrenia. 
 
Psychosurgeries are procedures that involve the physical removal or alteration of part of the brain.Lobotomies involved separating tissue in an area called the prefrontal cortex.
 
A surgeon inserted a leucotome through the eye socket and drove it through a thin layer of bone with a mallet to access the brain.
 
These procedures are no longer performed in the United States. Read on to learn more about why lobotomies were traditionally performed and why psychosurgery is used today.Lobotomies are no longer Trusted Source performed in the United States. They began to fall out of favor in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of antipsychotic medications. 
 
The last recorded lobotomy in the United States was performed by Dr. Walter Freeman in 1967 and ended in the death of the person on whom it was performed.
 
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