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Convulsion Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

L. C. Cook
L. C. Cook*
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Bexley Hospital, Kent
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Therapeutic convulsions were introduced by Meduna (1937) in 1934. After preliminary trial with intramuscular camphorated oil, Meduna soon discovered the great advantages of intravenous cardiazol (leptazol, metrazol), which remains the best of the chemical methods of fit production. Many descriptions of the various aspects of the cardiazol fit are available (Cook, 1938a; Ebaugh and Shanahan, 1939; Katzenelbogen et al., 1939; Strauss, Landis and Hunt, 1939; Dean, 1940; Hemphill, 1940).

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 90 , Issue 378 , January 1944 , pp. 435 - 464
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1944 

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