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A NATIONAL INQUIRY HAS BEEN ORDERED:

THIS OPERATION HAS GOT

D

THE DOCTORS WORRIED

London

R Donald Johnson is

a worried man. He

is worried about an operation that has

By David Roxan

vous basia. It has even been given by some hospitala to "difficult patients" to make them "caster to manage.

in

nothing

D

"I've

She added: that anything can bring me back want to be and well. I've no interest in anything I do.

Save me. A 69-year-old women gave a straightforward account of life.

though full of grumbles. She was a hypochondrite.

no faith on God's earth

what

More

than 14,000

people in Britain have

already undergone the brain operation known AL prefrontal leuco- tomy. But the effects on those who sub- mitted to it are seriously perturbing. Thousands have changed personalities

and for the worse. So grave is the situa- tion that the Minister of Health has ordered a national inquiry into Does this the matter. her

brain operation justify the term, "the worse honest error of medical

One year afterwards she wrote: "I do not fret or worry. 1 take life more easily, and I have suffered no mental <ilm- tele- ness."

her Then she concluded with the her words: "I do not foel at to live

in the world."

QAID

practice?"

Saya Dr Donald Johnson, Member of Parliament, a man who is making the operation a Parliamentary Issue: "Too many doctors tend to become over- Dr Tow: "The brain's enthusiastic. When they give

PROBLEMS

but

There

There is no question that there centrate. They lose drive and A 54-year-old housekeeper already been performed on have been

wrote a full account of her life outstanding ambition. Inny more than fourteen thou- successes with this surgery. But They become quarrelsome, before the prefrontal leucotomy sand

in

Irresponsible and often opathetio Afterwards she replied to people

Great the dominating question is-has

Dr this highly dangerous operation One doctor is already ahead Tow: "I am unable to do what Britain.

And of the Ministry of Health become a medical "fashion"?

you wish." Dr Donald Johnson is a

First introduced to deal with Britain In Investiguling those more. Member of Parliament for a limited class of mental dis serious after-effects,

30- Before her operation a Dr P. Macdonald Tow, former year-old supervisor of the city of Carlisle, near orders, its use has been widely

research psychiatrist in the phone exchange wrole of the Scottish border. He and extended.

The operation has been per- Nuffield Department of Surgery schooldaya and expressed many other eminent mem- formed on persons suffering at Oxford University, and one dimcully in getting on with her bers of the medical profes- from high blood pressure,

of the most eminent medical mother. experts in the United Kingdom,

One year after the operation sion are today asking: "Are asthma, eczema and other com-

wanted to know more about it. that "dimculty" had becomo we right to perform this plaints believed to have a uer-

The cases of ten men and 20 opon bostility. She wrote: "Well, operation at all?"

women who had undergone pre- honestly, sometimes could ropes are reinted to electric shock treatment they frontal leucotomy were stualed strangle her." And went on: "I

men's highest achievements, know it achieves results, by Dr Tow

often still

think the only way After isolating the frontal areas they do not know why. These cases of people who out of all this is to be dead.”

it must be concluded that a man is not much more scientific basis had experienced this particular

le reduced to a lower level of to prefrontal leucotomy, GRUMBLES brain operation ranged from n

activity, Possibly the truest and 20 years of age

"It is completely wrong young man of

most accurate way of describing patients are not consulted arst who was still at college 10 ¤

before being submitted to such BOTO extreme treatment. In

this

tot realise They included housewives,

Not only medical issues are cases I dancing, cycling, involved in a food faclory master builder,

prefrontal

but for most people possible, and knitting.

leuce the choice

bo explained manageress, a private secretary,

doing for others, tomy. There are social and legal

they decide Issues, Judges and lawyers have and

themselves. a writer and a housekeeper. Sho WB5 proud of

Dr Tow visited When

each person

discussed that if a person com- Too often the little benef home, liked nice clothes several times before and after

mits murder after a prefrontal this operation is far outweighed leucotomy, their operations. He gave them shopping.

could that be his by the danger of great harm." Lests, made them

defence?

What should be the future intelligence

many **And it a hard, hard answer questionnaires. One year wrote:

of the operation that loter he

the whole fight to stop from NOTED KLÍÐA repeated

Would not the surgeon who doctor now call: "The worse and yelling and to be civil to performed the operation be part- honest error in the history of process,

anyone...

medical practice?"

What is the reason for this self-searching after more than fourteen thousand have sub- mitted to the knife?

medicul || s because

men have discovered that thousands who have undergone the brain operation known as prefrontal leucotomy

have changed Ber- sonalities and the change in far loo many cases has been for the

worse.

So serknts have the medical profession's second though la about this treatment become that Britain's Minister of Health, has ordered Mr Iain Macleod an inquiry into the effects

matter the operation

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national importance.

DRASTIC

of

of

And the Minister of Health is studying reports of hospitals It is alleged the opera- tion has been done for experi- mental "guinea-pig" rensons.

where

CAUTION

PRITAIN'S medical profession is often accused of being "too conservative" in its attitude to- wards new treatments. America "beat the drum" for the Sulk polio vaccine, the Bri- tish Medical Research Council was ultra-cautious and was al- tacked for being so. In that case caution was justified.

But sometimes, as with tonsils adenolds operations, certain types of treatment become

and

MR Macleod has asked more fashionable.

And many medical men now admit that much of the surgery was unnecessary,

69-year-old woman of private A 18-year-old musician wrote the net effect is that he is more

means.

DESPAIR

Д

IS most vivid results came from asking each of the 36

their to write

auto- blographies before the operation, then write them again 1 year afterwards.

than one hundred hospitals

persons the post to report to him or operation case histories of patients who have submitted to this operation.

Pending the completion of this national inquiry, the Mini- ster Is

considering whether to Issue an Instruction that no

Some people think that too often the wise caution that greets new drugs is thrown overboard when it comes to new surgical techniques.

Today the terrible question is. hospital should carry out such "Is the trend for the prefrontal operations unless they are ap- leucotomy operation as a "cure- proved by an entire board of all" for so many ailments the doctors, which is the system al- most dangerous medical "Tash ready

adopted

at London's lon" of aŭ time? famous Maudsley Hospital.

What does it do to some of Says Dr Donald Johnson: "At those who submit to it? present this drastic brain opera- 7 makes then unable to deal tion can be performed at the with life. They cannot think or word of a single relative or plan ahead.

27-

Before her operation year-old intelligent housewife submitted a long and entertain-

in and highly interesting count of her life.

ac-

before her operation how simple." much she loved cooking, music-balls, bus rides,

happy

wilg

She

her and

One year afterwards she

ly responsible for the crime?

that

Who Cares Who By WILLIAM

BARKLEY

Wrote Hamlet 294's

FEAR they are in a

It's

of

the

cold sweat now in Strat. Chippy Shop athat; Gognts!

ford-on-Avon.

Ah! the mutability of

hesthe that Marlowe w not

One year after the operation she wrote: "At night ali is dull despair and destitution. All my will is overcome with dull des- pair. There is no force within human affairs, To think rote, "Stralford suppressed all muxered (as tradition saya) in me to Dyercome fatigue and that the future fame, for-ertising There is bộtení) peplied "too Apung to have day-deadness."

Before his operation. a 30-tune, and publicity of this townr

Glaswihu No," ther 'man' was "mur» doctor. And the mentally sick Their appreciation of life is year-old domestic worker wrote excellent town depends on how and patient concerned has no

Afasysholdered and he corpe was sub- say dulled. They lose both intelli- a lucid account of his life. whatsoever.

theatrel bú Onco performed. gence and

the stroke of a pick and the dal thought vocabulary. They Afterwards his words rambled

the wing ituted him; and he went like the cutting of a thumb, take longer to dress, to count together without

selling plays, in alding, and punctuation turn of a shovel in a grave lown?

complain there is no going back."

Factor and to read. They cannot con- and with little meaning,

in Chislehurst.

puki boso simpleft it Mariom had een born in talled Shi espiare tralow the Mr Calvin Hoffman, an

Cordless 180 of bị nam American, hopes by opening raped Fut Thomas Walsingham to prove very soon that the wick to Kott Beaver I has

wrote Shake- 3 who

IT

·DON'T

BE SHY,

the very old tomb of Sir Cant THE

SERGEANT'S SO KIND

booked in.

From WILLIAM HAMSHER

man

speare was anyone but

ww to theatre body moved rich/by-

bulking so

ben mough trojhi

where

I doti

He hopes to prove that it was It was Garrick wik" started thick Christopher Marlowe, and nooth Stratfood" cult. à le ́heldi fory, blays, am the

Wife Arzt fenfivale anda wrote a and

Torm which you buy abt think.

tardy justice done.

What a knock to Ye Olde Shakespeare Cates! What a bull in Ye Olde China Shoppes of

So to the dismiss....Across | Stratford

the square a band began boom. Disaster to Ye Olde Innes Ang out hymns and milltary Finish to St George's Day, which is not noticed anywhere

soup, rich

tam he andar. Shake pears-I mean: Marlowe.

dame or aut Bealer, old

"you "hak" me now to ssy I wrote 'Hamlet? You'll end by giving me

"Don't

Marlowe

bad name."

متعة

Bill"

BRYS

ink of the money

Andernach-on-Rhine save carly arrivals a long foot- is Private Fritz's first alog to barracks. week in uniform. Five The Commandant, Colonel marches. hundred volunteers for the Ernst Phillipp, met them at the No cookhouse bugle this first except in Stratford, where it "Avonian Willy Bard divine,

It will bring to Stratforth. And Wehrmacht

havo gates with a cheery "Good day. But a good aroma of pea was Shakespeare's birthday he exordised It reads even you'll get the usual rake-on to

morning to you."

in floating chunks (and donth-day too for good worko

"Stourian Chris buy the biggest house in your of bacon, was beckoning enough measure), with the result that topher." Friendly

home town--New Place, in't Borgeants waved Smiling waltresses handed representatives of 40 or 400 Canterbury on the Stour, on By the end of next week recruits to their quarters six round huge tureens to men al-nations parade their flags there the other hand-what an ex more than a thousand will men to a room.

ready six at a tible.

Canterbury, its Shakespeare, amunlly.

tremely other hand it in-lina

like the cathedral, Ite dean. What have arrived to start three Outside, on a parade ground

long needed some 'nativS No queueing for the men of still being rolled by a steam the now Wehrmacht.

Christopher Marlowe to have a town to soll. Queue here to months' basic training,

roller, came a few practice Across the corridor the can-

see the birthplace of England's written Shakespears for him.

For look at Canterbury now,

national bardi (We'll

Ind Andernach,

orders. dar

Major Hane, teen was serving beer to the And the conicen

All this just after Lieut What has it got to attract a birthplace hote volumtoers.

Fordham Flower is businem? - Pracileally nothing a Visit yw fainous school where April to other camps all over aid he won the Knight's

Russian front in the you can get in the public houses honoured with West Germany as core of the an tho

a kulghthood, but Beckett's tomb and a Red ye man who wrote Shakespeare Learned 'yo: ABC Don't mine ye cadres who will mnowball the war-tock. the first parade," of Andernach town,'

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