ELECTROSHOCK
Abstract
Dr. Kalinowsky in his summary discussed complications chiefly. In 1500 patients he has observed two cases with fractures of the long bones of the body but has seen no fatalities.
In summing up Dr. Kennedy stated that he had never seen intellectual impairment after recovery from temporary memory defect in a certain number of patients. He cited a number of patients who, having recovered through this therapeutic instrument, were now successfully carrying out severely intellectual positions and tasks.
He referred to Dr. Cobb's request for "controls": he had had a number of patients whom he had cared for fifteen or twenty years ago through months and years of agitated depression who, having sustained another identical attack during the last three years, were treated successfully by "electrosleep" recovering normal health thereby in as many weeks as previously they had been sick years.
Dr. Kennedy concluded by saying that we need a new orientation in the study of man. Up to the present we have been thinking only of the pathology of "fibre" but from now on we must begin the study of the pathology of "forces."
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