Word: shocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sakel cure is complicated, difficult and dangerous because the patient must almost die of insulin shock several times before he can collect and use his wits like a normal human being. Dr. Sakel applies his treatment in four stages. For two weeks or so, according to the patient's reaction, he administers increasingly large hypodermic doses of insulin. When the insulin doses become powerful enough to cause insulin shock (profuse sweating, coma), Dr. Sakel is ready for the second, or shock phase of his treatment. This consists of inducing coma for several hours a day for several days. This...
After several days of profound insulin shocks, the patient is allowed to rest, free from insulin, for one to three days. Then he is put through a "polarization" or tapering off course of gradually diminishing doses of insulin. Summed up Dr. Sakel: "The results do not depend upon the size of the dose of insulin, but rather on the proper termination at the right time of each shock. ... I should like to add that I used to think that only recent cases would show a satisfactory response to treatment. But later I realized that in some chronic cases...
Fiancee Joyce escaped with bruises and shock...
...sight. And when Alastair went into one of his trances he saw rocks ahead. In his waking moments he ably seconded Clavers in his police duties, wooed Margaret, Jean's protegee. Margaret liked Alastair but could not do better than that: seeing her father murdered had been a shock that left her pathologically virginal. Clavers married his Jean but Alastair pined in vain for Margaret...
Alastair avenged his friend's murder, and by doing it shocked Margaret (who was just emerging from her pathological state) for what looked like keeps. So he went back to his craggy home to live like a hermit. Smoked out by treacherous government soldiers, he decided to go to America. On the ship whom should he see but Margaret. This time the shock was pleasant for both parties...