Editing Ice pick (section)

== Use in medicine ==
The [[lobotomy]] was a medical treatment that gained popularity during the mid-1930s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=How modern medicine created zombies |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/an-ice-pick-to-the-brain-the-horror-of-the-frontal-lobotomy/C2X63F5EDPOOGYJKKSRYMKGZEE/ |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=28 July 2019 |language=en-NZ}}</ref> Lobotomist [[Walter Jackson Freeman II|Walter Freeman]] performed thousands of lobotomies across the world. Reportedly, he used an ice pick from his family's kitchen. The pick would be inserted into the brain through the eye socket. The procedure would be done without the use of [[anesthetic]]s. This "Ice Pick Lobotomy," was believed to diminish mental issues however these often resulted in paralysis and early death. This treatment failed due to a lack of testing before being performed on thousands of people.<ref name=":0" /> Walter Freeman's medical license was revoked in 1967 after a woman died during a lobotomy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cormier |first=Zoe |date=June 12, 2015 |title=A History of the Ice Pick Lobotomy |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-history-of-the-lobotomy/ |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=Vice}}</ref> This method of lobotomy led to the deaths of around 500 people over the course of 50 years. By the 1970s, the procedure would be banned in many countries for being `'inhumane`'<ref name=":0" />