It seems that at the time, the effects of a lobotomy were not widely known. He may have been a piece of shit, but you have to think about what procedures and medicine were like in general back then. It was the wild west.
[It seems that at the time, the effects of a lobotomy were not widely known](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy#Lobotomy). He may have been a piece of shit, but you have to think about what procedures and medicine were like in general back then. It was the wild west.
It is. What bothers me the most is I suspect he knew this would simply make her docile. Seems like the kind of thing you discuss with your wife beforehand.