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When doctors hammered an ice pick through the eye
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Psychiatry used to be a wildly barbaric guessing game, peaking with the invention of the leukotome. This terrifying little instrument was designed to be hammered blindly through a conscious patient's eye socket into their frontal lobe. Once inside, the doctor would wiggle it around like a rogue joystick to sever neural connections, supposedly curing mental illness by turning the patient into a docile zombie.
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