February 11, 1947 - 'New Vistas' Found in Relieving PAIN by Brain Surgery
as published in the Buffalo Evening News 'NEW VISTAS' FOUND IN RELIEVING PAIN BY BRAIN SURGERY By Ed Kelly Dr. Walter Freeman, of Washington, the neurologist who first introduced the controversial brain surgery known as pre-frontal lobotomy into the United States, declared Monday Evening that the operation has opened "new vistas" in the relief of excruciating pain which accompanies aumerous physical ailmets. The same psychosurgial method which Dr. Freeman said has been successful in restoring many mental cases to usefulness in society is being used to remove "the fear of pain which is often as great as the pain itself" in patients suffering from cancer, phantom limb, neuralgia of the face, causalgia and conditions developed by amputees. The 51-year-old president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and professor of neurology at George Washington University, paused here, en route to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to address more than