During the latter half of the 19th century, a device known popularly as the “Utica crib” became widely used in asylums and state hospitals across North America.
In 1946, Walter Freeman introduced the transorbital ice pick lobotomy. Touted as a procedure that could be learned and subsequently performed by psychiatrists outside of the operating room, the technique was quickly criticized by neurosurgeons.
MS. Ida Cannon. In 1914 Ms. Cannon was named Chief of the Mass General Social Service Department, the first organized social work department in a hospital.