Lung abscess as a complication of shock therapies.

Shock therapy has been accepted today as one of the most successful methods for the treatment of the affective psychoses. The shock may be induced by insulin coma or by convulsions produced either electrically or by leptazol (" cardiazol "). Pulmonary suppuration has been a major complication of insulin coma therapy and, except for vertebral compression fractures, the most frequent sequel of convulsion therapy.