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Egas Monizhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egas_Moniz, pioneer of the lobotomy, was awarded the Nobel prize for Medicine in 1949, greatly boosting the practice of that infamous procedure.
If he had had not been so honored, would treatment of the mentally ill have developed in a more humane direction, or simply more slowly?