As human kind grows older, one of the things that have and must improve is the techniques of staying alive. The medical world have advanced to such levels where almost anything is possible, where longevity is increasing day by day and there are fewer diseases that do not have any kind of cure to them.
But even as these advancements have been taking place there are certain medical procedures that are so bizarre that they might not actually seem like cures at all and more like scary practices.
Some like Lobotomy or Hemispherectomy or even the Lindbergh Operation are or have been such bizarre that they are almost hard to comprehend.