The Treatment of Mental Disorders Ry Electrically Induced Convulsions
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the majority of modern mental hospitals all over the world. In the mental hospitals of Ontario, 1,600 patients were given ' shock treatment ' during the years 1938-41, and the statistical report concludes, ' it is safe to assume that in consequence of the shock therapy work carried out during the years 1938-41, there were fewer patients on the books of the mental hospitals of Ontario during the year 1941-42, than there would have been if no such specific treatment had been given \ This statistical report definitely proves the utility of ' shock therapy ' in mental hospitals. When I was in Budapest in 1935 I learnt the cardiazol shock therapy from Dr. Ladislaus V. Meduna, the originator of cardiazol therapy. On my return to India in 1936, I introduced this therapy in the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, and since then it has been in use in the majority of the mental hospitals in India with encouraging results. I have, up to date, treated more than 500 cases of mental disorders by cardiazol therapy without any fatal accident. Fractures, specially of the spine and long bones, have been cited as frequent complications in cardiazol therapy, but my experience must have been happier than that of some other psychiatrists, as I cannot recall more than four fractures and about 20 dislocations in my series of over 500 cases, each case having received at an average 12 shocks by cardiazol. I also feel bound to mention that I have observed no signs suggesting that cardiazol therapy had injured brain tissues. I am fully convinced that 1 shock
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دوره 79 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1944