A biometric evaluation of the somatotherapies in schizophrenia.

Although the need for sound re-search on the outcome of mental dis-ease has long been recognized, and although probably no other medical specialty has accumulated such an abundance of statistics as psychia-try, yet the dearth of adequately de-signed investigations especially in the field of the evaluation of therapy is conspicuous. The literature describ-ing and appraising the results of in-sulin, metrazol, and electroshock treatment is voluminous. Reports on lobotomy results have also mounted steadily. In spite of these studies the