Chapter 54 Step by step step into the place where there is light

The lobotomy, which has been forgotten by people, was known to all the young and old for a certain period of time. In "ET", the seven or eight-year-old child was afraid that the aliens who took refuge in his home would be arrested for experiments At that time, he asked worriedly, "Will they perform a lobotomy on him?" It is a kind of early mental surgery. It was invented by Portuguese psychiatrist Moniz and neurosurgeon Lima in 1935. The full name is "bilateral prefrontal lobotomy".This operation pioneered the science of psychosurgery and was named the Moniz-Lima operation.It can make the patient reduce impulsive aggressive behavior and become docile, but the patient has become another person since then, not only memory and intelligence decline, but also personality defects. Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, but the procedure was abolished a few years later.

But the protagonist of Sean Connery's movie "A Fine Madness" (A Fine Madness) happened to fall during this period and could not escape.As a demented poet, he was subjected to this operation as a cure.Mike Murphy, the protagonist in the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" adapted from the novel by American writer Ken Kesey, did not escape either. To avoid hard labor, he pretended to be insane and entered a mental hospital.In the end, he, who was out of tune with everything around him, had his white matter removed and became a walking dead. Francis Farmer, the female star in the 1930s and 1940s, did not escape this operation. The tragic climax of the biopic "Francis" was that Francis Farmer was forcibly removed white matter.

Before that, this talented woman became a small celebrity because of an award-winning composition, and went to Hollywood in 1936 and became a star.She acted in 14 films in six years, but she had a violent personality and was keen to use radical ways to rebel against the flashy environment around her. She turned against her colleagues and yelled at her boss on the set. He was admitted to a mental hospital and had his white matter removed.After many years, she returned to society as a middle-aged woman with slack eyesight and dull expression. Even "noble" patients are not immune.In the book "Elegant Mental Asylum-Death and Life in America's First-class Mental Hospital" by Alex Bean, in the treatment methods of that noble mental hospital, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, shock, bloodletting, frontal lobotomy Impressively tied.

Finally, it was abolished, and finally because of the serious complications of the operation, the operation was no longer considered a good thing for patients in the chaotic world.People's understanding of the world is sometimes wrong, sometimes it takes a detour, but it is always moving forward.The truth is always only what the local people believed to be the truth at that time, waiting to be corrected in the future.Therefore, the author Fabre said: "No matter how far our lighting candles project the light, the darkness is still surrounded by darkness outside the lighting circle. All around us are abyss black holes of unknown things..." "We are all seeking Human beings, the desire to know takes hold of our souls. Let us move our lanterns from point to point. As bits and pieces of faces become known, one may at last be able to piece together a part of the whole picture. Made it..."

I'm a little bit scared-I once rant about what happened to me. Fortunately, it was in the year when the operation was abolished.The human age is like the small plasticine bench made by Einstein, there are always times when it is uglier and worse.Fortunately, I can always move forward bit by bit, bit by bit, to expand the range of light, step by step, towards the bright side, and walk into the place where there is light.