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- Title
Two statues of António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz GCSE GCIB (c. 1874–1955).
- Authors
Wellington, Alexander; Wellington, Jack
- Abstract
His research led to the radical development of prefrontal leucotomy to treat mental illness and in 1935, Moniz instructed the first psychosurgery of a 63-year-old woman's removal of white matter fibres from her frontal lobe.[2] Due to its reported success, Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949. Moniz died from internal haemorrhage in 1955 aged 82.[3] The stone statue (Figure 1) attributes Moniz wearing his full doctoral regalia of the University of Coimbra with bronze trimmings as depicted in a sitting-portrait painted by Jose Malhoa in 1932; currently held in Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon, to which the statue stands forefront. António Egas Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist and founder of modern psychosurgery widely revered for his discovery of cerebral angiography and prefrontal leucotomy ("lobotomy").
- Subjects
STATUES; NOBEL Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Publication
Journal of Medical Biography, 2023, Vol 31, Issue 4, p279
- ISSN
0967-7720
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/09677720211054028