08-04-2011, 03:33 PM
re: post#6
WOW! this is new! but lobotomies were common back then.
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She was the darling of a nation and died at 33 at the height of her popularity, but now it’s been revealed that Eva Peron probably spent her last few months in a much-altered mental state.
Evidence has emerged that she was given a lobotomy to help her cope with the cancer that eventually ended her life in July 1952.
Peron, lovingly known as Evita, was the second wife of Argentina’s President Juan Peron and had been left in a hugely weakened condition from uterine cancer.
‘We have uncovered evidence that led us to believe she underwent a prefrontal lobotomy to relieve the pain, agitation and anxiety she suffered in the final months of her illness,’ Daniel Nijensohn, an Argentine-born neurosurgeon at Yale University told the Daily Telegraph.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1U5fI2HLL
WOW! this is new! but lobotomies were common back then.
She was the darling of a nation and died at 33 at the height of her popularity, but now it’s been revealed that Eva Peron probably spent her last few months in a much-altered mental state.
Evidence has emerged that she was given a lobotomy to help her cope with the cancer that eventually ended her life in July 1952.
Peron, lovingly known as Evita, was the second wife of Argentina’s President Juan Peron and had been left in a hugely weakened condition from uterine cancer.
‘We have uncovered evidence that led us to believe she underwent a prefrontal lobotomy to relieve the pain, agitation and anxiety she suffered in the final months of her illness,’ Daniel Nijensohn, an Argentine-born neurosurgeon at Yale University told the Daily Telegraph.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1U5fI2HLL