Out-patient Electric Convulsion Treatment

Memory studies in electric convulsion therapy.

The disturbances of memory immediately following electric convulsion therapy (E.C.T.) have been the subject of many investigations (Zubin and Barrera, 1941; Mayer-Gross, 1943; Liberson and Wilcox, 1945; Kalinowsky and Hoch, 1947). Implicit, ifnot explicit, in the majority of these papers is the assumption that memory can be studied in isolation, Bartlett, however, (1932), long ago demonstrated ...

Convulsion and insulin treatment.

Convulsion Therapy Over I2 years have passed since the first report on convulsion therapy was given by Von Meduna. In that period the treatment has been undergoing the cycle usually imposed on any promising remedy in medicine. Originally used for schizophrenia, it was subsequently tried in a wide field of psychiatric conditions. Now it is becoming recognized as a specific treatment for one form...

The Treatment of Carbuncle in the Out-Patient Department

The introduction of autohsemotherapy in the treatment of carbuncle has given very good results in my hands, much better than the old method of surgical treatment. The technique consists of injection of the patient's own citrated blood, the amount depending on the area affected, usually about 10 to 20 c.cm. each time, starting about half an inch within the extreme margin of induration and inject...

Acupuncture in alcoholism treatment: a randomized out-patient study.

Seventy-two alcoholics were treated with acupuncture to the ear in a randomized single-blind controlled design over 10 weeks. Orthodox points and incorrect points 3-5 mm from orthodox points were used. No initial differences were found regarding social characteristics, the responses to the Swedish version of the Alcohol Use Inventory and the Three-dimensional Personality Questionnaire, indicati...

District Clinics for out Patient Treatment of Tuberculous Problem Patients.