Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indubitably effective. He has cured hundreds of cases of schizophrenia at his Vienna clinic by means of insulin injections. Dozens have been cured in private and public mental hospitals in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Russia, England. Young Dr. Joseph Words of Manhattan, who brought the insulin treatment for schizophrenia to the U. S. two years ago, paved the way for Dr. Sakel's appearance in Manhattan, has had about a dozen cures in the past few months...
...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...
...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-not in all-more or less improvement was possible, and it was well worth trying...
...nervous disorders occurring in our megalopolitan civilization, which was first noticed about 1820 with the final crystallization of the industrial society, have illumined the lack of adequate facilities for treating and especially for diagnosing the maladjusted. Of the cases that now come to the doctors, apparently requiring even surgical treatment, the number that can be found wholly mental in origin is only beginning to be appreciated. And for the first time, the hard heads of the business world are interesting themselves in the employment of men equipped to aid the troubled employee in confronting his own small section of life...
...Lieut.-General Sir Harold Ben Fawcus.K.C.B.,C.B..C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.B., D.P.H.. Director- General of the British Red Cross, one-time Director-General of the Army Medical Services. These and others just as influential got King George V's ear, got him to order the Duke-Fingard Treatment investigated officially. Whatever its merits or demerits, now decided Health Minister Sir Kingsley Wood's men, the Treatment did not require Mr. Fingard's presence in England...