WEBVTT 00:00.100 --> 00:04.100 [This tape was transferred from a 16mm film original by Colorlab for the National Library of Medicine 00:04.100 --> 00:10.100 April 2006, NLM call number HF 1122] 00:10.100 --> 00:13.333 [Recent Modifications of Convulsive Shock Therapy] 00:13.333 --> 00:15.333 [From the Departments of Neuropsychiatry, University of Nebraska, College of Medicine, 00:15.333 --> 00:17.333 and Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital, Omaha] 00:17.333 --> 00:24.633 [Services of Doctors A. E. Bennett and P.T. Cash] 00:24.633 --> 00:55.233 [...] 00:55.233 --> 01:04.966 [...] 01:04.966 --> 01:14.699 [A woman wearing a hospital gown is on all fours on a bed, then sits up.] 01:14.700 --> 01:26.700 [She stands, touches the walls, sits back down.] 01:26.700 --> 01:45.033 [She is smiling, laughing, rocking, and tugging at her hospital gown.] 01:45.033 --> 01:56.266 [She sits, stands, speaks, tears paper,] 01:56.266 --> 02:11.066 [She rolls around on the bed.] 02:11.066 --> 02:27.199 [...] 02:27.200 --> 02:49.633 [A vial of medication is shown and a syringe prepared. The woman is injected.] 02:49.633 --> 02:56.566 [...] 02:56.566 --> 03:04.299 [...] 03:04.300 --> 03:25.733 [The woman lies in bed with eyes closed. A doctor moves her head and limbs.] 03:25.733 --> 03:33.666 [...] 03:33.666 --> 03:44.966 [The woman lies still while receiving an injection, then moves slowly afterward. ] 03:44.966 --> 04:30.699 [Her mouth opens and closes and the doctor moves her limbs. She appears to be convulsing.] 04:30.700 --> 04:39.766 [...] 04:39.766 --> 04:59.499 [The woman previously treated is sitting on a sofa, looking around. She smiles.] 04:59.500 --> 05:19.333 [...] 05:19.333 --> 06:01.799 [A doctor injects a woman lying down in a hospital bed. She appears mostly sedated but moves her limbs now and then.] 06:01.800 --> 06:07.833 [...] 06:07.833 --> 07:03.399 [The woman seems to have a mild seizure. The doctor stands over her, straightening her limbs if they flail.] 07:03.400 --> 07:25.866 [...] 07:25.866 --> 07:50.732 [A bottle of methoquinine is shown, then a table of other vials and a nurse mixing the dose.] 07:50.733 --> 08:41.933 [A bottle of metrazol is shown and the nurse continues her work, preparing a syringe.] 08:41.933 --> 09:00.566 [...] 09:00.566 --> 09:37.532 [The nurse hands the syringe to the doctor, who injects another patient.] 09:37.533 --> 10:06.466 [The patient is initially still but then begins to jerkily move her head and body.] 10:06.466 --> 10:13.099 [...] 10:13.100 --> 10:52.466 [The patient lies in bed, eyes closed, with the doctor's hand on the back of her neck.] 10:52.466 --> 12:15.366 [...] 12:15.366 --> 12:37.232 [A man lies in bed, and an attendant is cleaning the area around his temples. He then places an apparatus on the man's head.] 12:37.233 --> 12:47.799 [...] 12:47.800 --> 13:35.100 [The electro-shock is administered and the man's body reacts, turning and convulsing. He goes still, breathing heavily.] 13:35.100 --> 13:41.966 [...] 13:41.966 --> 14:23.732 [A woman receives electro-convulsive treatment. Her body goes rigid, then trembles and jerks and is finally still.] 14:23.733 --> 14:36.433 [...] 14:36.433 --> 14:47.799 [X-ray of patient's fractured spine, a result of the convulsions.] 14:47.800 --> 14:59.900 [...] 14:59.900 --> 15:42.000 [A syringe of curare is prepared and administered to a male patient prior to electro-shock treatment.] 15:42.000 --> 15:54.033 [...] 15:54.033 --> 16:52.399 [The electric current is delivered, and the patient convulses, at first markedly and then more mildly.]