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Bernadette Rogers was Walter Freemanâs 1764th patient. She was very white and very skinny. She was so skinny that her cheeks had sprouted a fine layer of blonde fuzz, like a jacket. She was also so skinny that Walter Freeman could fit his hand round her ankle with extra space. He experimented after some electroshocks.
âLook,â he said to the junior neurologist and the nurse, and held up her ankle. âLook how skinny she is.â -
Uncovered in twelve cardboard boxes sealed with red-and-white FRAGILE tape were 3, 874 black-and-white photographs and 150 reels of 16 mm film. The neurologist who found them, a Dr. Kalina Kalcheva (newly arrived from the Sofia Academy of Medicine) told the local paper; âI could not sleep. Seeing the eyes of those people, I could not sleep for days.â