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Modern medicine’s come a long way since the days of old where doctors would drill a hole in your head for a cold, prescribe you a tobacco smoke enema, suggest you brushed your teeth with urine, or gave you heroin as cough medicine.

But things really did get a whole hell of a lot worse before they got better… 

Lobotomies were performed on tens of thousands of psychiatric patients, misbehaving children, “hysterical” women, JFK’s sister, and the former First Lady of Argentina, all just in the last 80 years. 

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