I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy - Dorothy Parker
Leucotome advertisement, 1950.
Brain: A Journal of Neurology, Vol 73, No. 3.

Down Bros. and Mayer & Phelps, Ltd.   Leucotomy Instruments
devised by J. S. MacGregor and J. R. Crumbie
Vide Lancet: "An Improved Leucotome." -- May 30, 1941.
Ibid. -- "Surgical Treatment of Mental Diseases." -- July 5, 1942.
Head Office: 92-94, Borough High Street, London, S.E.I.
Showrooms: 32-34, New Cavendish Street, London, W.I. Welbeck 3764

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