(Not for the faint of heart) Does this description give a historically correct treatment of psychiatric patients with electric current?
The “mouth guard” stopped the patient smashing his teeth, biting his tongue off. In this example, the current lasts about five seconds. They’ll have administered a paralytic agent, but they put a tourniquet on the ankle, to make sure he’s having a seizure.
Topics:
psychiatry,
history,
hospitals,
electricity,
medical,
mouth,
hospital,
19th century,
seizure,
1800s,
psychiatric treatment
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