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Friday, May 13, 2011

James Troutman charged in rape, slay of neighbor Skyler Kauffman, 9; family says he preyed before

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Dad, stepmom charged in murder of boy found under concrete slab - Chicago Sun-Times

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Mother pierced toddler's groin with safety pin - National - NZ Herald Mobile

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Heavy metal poisoned killer's mind

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Police: Bath salts led DeMotte woman to deface hotel room

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Police 'Taser man to death' for running a stop sign | Mail Online

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Police: Man fatally stabbed on South Side - Chicago Sun-Times

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Man fatally shot during South Side argument - Chicago Sun-Times

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Children arrested over pet duck killings - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Moreno Valley Child Abuse: Man Charged with Abuse, Torture of Girlfriend's Child - ktla.com

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Brandon Menard: Son Convicted in Northridge Family Massacre - ktla.com

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Undercover cop shoots, kills man who tried to rob him at gunpoint

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Schoolboy, 15, stabbed to death after being attacked in London street | Mail Online

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Bodies of nineteen decapitated men dumped along Mexican roadsides as death toll in drug war passes 35,000 | Mail Online

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Belief in religion is 'simply a universal part of human nature' | Mail Online

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'I'm gonna send that kaffir b**** straight to hell': White teen who had baby with married Muslim was murdered after chilling text | Mail Online

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Teacher drowned in an 18-inch pond after getting trapped under water by a garden statue | Mail Online

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British woman beheaded in Tenerife with machete | Mail Online

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Man fatally shot during South Side argument - Chicago Sun-Times

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Lobotomy

Lobotomy (Greek: λοβός – lobos: "lobe (of brain)"; τομή – tome: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from the Greek λευκός – leukos: "clear/white" and tome). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. While the procedure, initially termed a leukotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other) conditions—this despite general recognition of frequent and serious side-effects. The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 was awarded to António Egas Moniz "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses". The heyday of its usage was from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s when modern neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medications were introduced. By 1951 almost 20,000 lobotomies had been performed in the United States. The decline of the procedure was gradual rather than precipitous. In Ottawa's psychiatric hospitals, for instance, the 153 lobotomies performed in 1953 were reduced to 58 by 1961, after the arrival in Canada of the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine in 1954.

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Bloodletting

Bloodletting (or blood-letting) is the withdrawal of often considerable quantities of blood from a patient to cure or prevent illness and disease. Bloodletting was based on an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluid were considered to be "humors" whose proper balance maintained health. It was the most common medical practice performed by doctors from antiquity up to the late 19th century, a time span of almost 2,000 years. The practice has been abandoned for all except a few very specific conditions. It is conceivable that historically, in the absence of other treatments for hypertension, bloodletting could sometimes have had a beneficial effect in temporarily reducing blood pressure by a reduction in blood volume. However, since hypertension is very often asymptomatic and thus undiagnosable without modern methods, this effect was unintentional. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the historical use of bloodletting was harmful to patients.

Today, the term phlebotomy refers to the drawing of blood for laboratory analysis or blood transfusion (see Phlebotomy (modern). Therapeutic phlebotomy refers to the drawing of a unit of blood in specific cases like hemochromatosis, polycythemia vera, porphyria cutanea tarda, etc., to reduce the amount of red blood cells.

(Picture: Points for blood-letting, Hans von Gersdorff (surgeon), Field book of wound medicine, 1517)

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