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His skull has a hole in it from where the spike went through it. A construction worker- has a whole in his head.-
 * a 3 foot long iron went through his skull
 * he lived
 * the gun powder was ignited and the iron went in the air, and then went through his skull, and went out his head, and was still flying through the air.
 * he was breathing after this, and he was speaking after this happened. His heart beat was normal.
 * He was free from pain.
 * while he was recovering, the doctor recognized some changes of his personality and after surgery he was a different man.
 * he was stubborn and he would swear a lot, but before he was hard working, responsible and popular.
 * He worked in a museum.
 * he kept the pole.
 * 11 years after the accident, he began getting seizures, and he died several months after.
 * passed through his frontal fortex.
 * damage to the frontal lobes- can change your personality and the way you act or respond the things,.
 * in 1946- Walter Freeman: preformed the first ever: trans orbital : ice pick through the eye to cut away the feelings in the brain.
 * lobotomy- surgery of the soul.
 * it was for the mentally ill.
 * be preformed 2300.
 * Howard Dudley was 12 when he had an ice pick go through his eye.
 * Howard has always felt differently. - has a lobotomy,
 * given electrical shock, looked like a screw driver(ice pick); a little crunch, it took between 7 or 8 minutes, there was total silence with those who were watching.
 * Rosemary kennedy- had a lobotomy.
 * Is it still done?: yes, but less than ten per year.

epilepsy:
 * seizures
 * cure it by removing part of the brain.
 * you wont have seizures anymore.
 * does it change your personality?
 * can you die from this surgery?- YES