Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 236

Price Realized: $ 510
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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
FREEMAN, WALTER; and WATTS, JAMES WINSTON. Psychosurgery: Intelligence, Emotion and Social Behavior following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Mental Disorders. 81 text illustrations. Large 8vo, original cloth; endpapers browned; dust jacket, with some chipping along top and bottom edges. Springfield, 1942

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first edition. "The present work . . . played a major role in generating interest in lobotomy. The authors present eighty case histories with photographic documentation of their patients before and after the operation"--Heirs of Hippocrates 2334. Garrison-Morton 4906 note. inscribed by freeman and signed by both authors.