At last: Shickshinny Knights of Malta linked to the Draper/Vonsiatsky Condon ManCand crowds

[Helen Reyes]

...Possibly going even further than Cameron, both at Belmont Hospital in Surrey and St.Thomas' in London, Sargant subjected patients to up to three months' combined ECT, deep sleep treatment, insulin coma therapy and drugs. He said in a talk delivered in Leeds: 'For several years past we have been treating severe resistant depression with long periods of sleep treatment. We can now keep patients asleep or very drowsy for up to 3 months if necessary. During sleep treatment we also give them ECT and anti-depressant drugs'.

Just before the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, there was a disease, I believe it was called narcoleptic encephalitis or something similar, that killed a record number of people, and then disappeared. What it did was put people to sleep. They could be roused, but given the chance they would immediately go back to sleep. Most of them wasted away over the course of months and died. The survivors were said to be forever dulled by the experience.

Point taken on the use of shock in general and combat shock in particular.