Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Raymond O. Barton, a West Point classmate of Ike's, now retired and living in Augusta, got the same treatment when he called to pay his respects. He had to wire for a pass to get through the gold-plated blockade...
...Theo, he said: "I am struggling with all my energy to master my work . . . if I win that will be the best lightning conductor for my illness." That illness was possibly epilepsy, but it has also been defined as manic depression. Today, it might have been given electric shock treatment. As gallerygoers could see, Van Gogh's self-prescribed therapy was also a "shock treatment...
Next problem was to find a human to check the experiment on. The parasite that causes monkey malaria (Plasmodium cynomolgi) is like the parasite that causes most human malaria (Plasmodlum vivax"). He found a mental patient who was about to be given malaria anyway for treatment of general paralysis. The patient and his wife agreed that doctors could take out a small piece of his liver by a minor operation, seven days after he had been bitten by infected mosquitoes. At 5 o'clock one morning Dr. Shortt got the sliver of liver, rushed to his laboratory and worked...
Psychiatrists would like to have some sure method of telling whether a patient is schizophrenic-and whether treatment is doing him any good. Dr. Robert G. Grenell, at Yale University's department of neuroanatomy, added a new idea to an old gadget, evolved a technique that he hopes will answer both questions...
...amount of electricity produced by normal people and by schizophrenics was startling. Readings from the schizophrenics were very high, averaging around 65 microvolts (a microvolt is one-thousandth of a volt); normal people never sent the readings higher than about eleven microvolts. As the insane patients improved under treatment, their electrical readings fell closer & closer to normal. But if they stayed sick, their electrical marks stayed high...