Friday, July 01, 2005

 
Ugo Cerletti, the man who invented Electroshock Therapy (ECT). He was impressed by how you could completely anesthetize a hog with electricity applied to its head... useful before slaughter. "Let's try it on humans," said Ugo. It is still in practice today, despite side effects such as severe memory loss and other documentable brain damage.

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