Egas Moniz

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Egas Moniz (Portuguese) [ˈegas ˈmonɪz]

(Biographies / Egas Moniz, Antonio Caetanio de Abreu Freire (1874-1955) M, Portuguese, SCIENCE: neurologist) Antonio Caetanio de Abreu Freire. 1874-1955, Portuguese neurologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1949) with Walter Hess for their development of prefrontal leucotomy

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No references found			Historians of psychiatry agree that Egas Moniz never read about Burckhardt's treatment. The ice pick of oblivion: Moniz, Freeman and the development of ... by Getz, Marshall J. / Trames Following the experience of psychiatrist Egas Moniz in Portugal, they had given frontal lobotomies to six patients. 'The lobotomist' by Munoz, Rodrigo A. / Clinical Psychiatry News Turning to medicine, suffice it to say that Antonio Egas Moniz was awarded the prize, in 1949, for performing leucotomies by banging an ice pick through the patient's eye socket, and wrenching it from side to side to sever their frontal lobes. Victor Lewis-Smith column: Nothing noble in this prize by The Mirror (London, England)			Effusive rocks effusively effusiveness Efik EFIS EFL EFM Efreet Efrem Zimbalist eft EFTA EFTPOS EFTS Eftsoon eftsoons eg Eg. EGA egad Egadi Islands Egal egalitarian egalitarianism egalite Egality Egas Moniz Egbert Egean Egence Eger Egeria Egeria densa Egerminate egest egesta egestion EGF egg Egg and anchor egg and dart egg apparatus egg beater egg case egg cell Egg clavage Egg cleavage egg cream egg cup Egg development egg en cocotte egg foo yong			EGALA Egale egalitarian egalitarian egalitarianism egalitarianism egalitarians egalitarians egalite Égalité, Philippe Egality Egality EGames EGamingOnline EGAMS Egan Egan Marino Corporation Egan, Patrick Egan, Pierce Egan, William EGAOB EGAP EGAPL EGAPP EGAR EGARA EGARC EGAS Egas Moniz Egas Moniz, António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, Antonio Caetano de Arbreau Freire Egas Moniz, Antônio Caetano de Arbreau Freire EGAT EGATE EGATIN EGATS EGB Egba Egba Uprising EGBAR EGBB EGBC EGBCS EGBD EGBDF EGBE Egbe Woghiren Educational Foundation EGBEA Egbert Egbert Egbert Liudvigovich Volf Egbert Roscoe Murrow Egbert Volf

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