8. Hemiglossectomy

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Don’t feel bad if you have never heard that word before in your life. Fortunately, it’s a treatment that has been abandoned but was once employed as a treatment for stuttering or stammering. The idea was to simply cut about half of the tongue out. Many unfortunate patients bled to death following “treatment,” but it seemed to take a while before doctors came to the realization that it was ineffective.