SCINCE March, 1947, when one of us described the status of electroshock therapy,1 great progress has been made in this field. At the Maine General Hospital this progress has largely been due to the cooperative efforts of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Anesthesiology in adopting a modified technic based on the routine use of a muscle relaxant and high concentrations of oxygen. The method has been in use at the hospital for over six years, during which more than 3200 treatments have been administered; it is employed in all patients accepted for treatment, whether they are considered . . .
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Lincoln et al. (1955) studied this question.