 In 1957, for example, he performed 125 rostral and 19 standard leucotomies.Cingulotomy, where part of the anterior cingulate gyrus is destroyed, was pioneered in Great Britain in 1948 by Hugh Cairns, first Nuffield Professor of Surgery at the University of Oxford.Similar operations accounted for 10 per cent of psychosurgical operations in the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s.