 Transorbital leucotomy did not become widely used in the UK, but a few psychiatrists experimented with it.John Walsh at Tone Vale Hospital in Somerset operated on eight women in 1949, on three occasions (including one as a demonstration at a meeting of the south-western division of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association) using electroconvulsive shock as an anaesthetic.Walsh was disappointed with the results, finding "no definite clinical improvements" in any of the patients.