First Lobotomy?

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Phineas Gage with the iron rod that went through his skull in 1848. He lived 11 more years after the accident. His accident was the inspiration for the lobotomy - an operation developed in reaction to the stunning numbers of WWI soldiers returning home with PTSD. Institutions were over-run, and lobotomies could be done in minutes. With an ice-pick.