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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Electric Current. Four years ago, two doctors in Rome named Ugo Cerletti and L. Bini passed an electric current through a dog's brain, gave him a mild convulsion without doing him any harm. They next attempted to faradize psychiatric patients back to normality. Dr. Lothar Kalinowsky of Berlin introduced the new technique to Paris and London, is now working in Manhattan's New York State Psychiatric Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shocks for Sanity | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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