K Birch's List: OFOTCN

On January 17, 1946 a psychiatrist named Walter J. Freeman launched a radical  new era in the treatment of mental illness in this country. 

After rendering her unconscious through electroshock, Freeman inserted an ice  pick above her eyeball, banged it through her eye socket into her brain,  and then made cuts in her frontal lobes.  When he was done, he sent her  home in a taxi cab.